Episode 235 - C'mon Now, Chastity, Get to Readin'

[00:00:16] Hey everybody, it's another episode of Go Flix Yourself. My name is Ben Conowitz and with me as always is the math class to my recess, Bradford Oman. Hey that's me! Time to crunch some numbers. Okay. And you know what? The lunch break to my recess, Nate Lauchs. I like square pizza. You know what? Usually there's a nice, like, you know, gradual increase from one thing to another. Like, you really just fucked me raw with that one. Yeah, now you're math class and he's lunch and I'm recessed.

[00:00:45] That's horseshit. It's meant to be that you're the bad one of the three. You could have at least given me... No, you've not gotten that. That's like the whole, like, bit. But usually... A lot of times though he does this where he doesn't really get it. No, no. We've been doing this for how many years now? Like 10. Usually it's closer though. Usually it's closer. Yeah, no it is closer. This is a lot farther. This was really a smack in the face. Yeah, like you could have at least given me like computer time. There was like no lube on that one. That was just like a... Yeah, you just took a rock hard ding dong and just smacked me in the face with it.

[00:01:10] By the way, when you guys were in school, did you guys... Was this just a thing at my school where they did... It was your house, man. You were homeschooled. Come on. Was this a thing at your school? Did they do chicken noodles and mashed potatoes? Was your mom the teacher for everything? Or was it just my house? And then the next day sell it for 60 cents. No, they did not. They did not... Oh, they did for us. Put it on sale the next day. Oh yeah, the next day. Day old chicken noodles and mashed potatoes.

[00:01:40] No, we didn't have discount lunch. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. My mom would make discount lunch on the next day. The cafeteria people were just like, you know what... Wait, was your mom the lunch lady? No, it's a joke because it's a homeschool. Are you okay? You alright tonight, buddy? I just wasn't sure. I know we haven't podcasted in a while. It's been a little bit. This is gonna be a long one, isn't it? It's gonna be a long one. We're gonna be stopping to explain the jokes to you a lot tonight, bud? Or... I'm depressed. Is it because it's sad time? Because it's after the holidays?

[00:02:09] No, it's because I got rectal warts. Whoa! That's... Again? I thought those things were cleared up. No, what can I say? I like octopus stuff, so... I don't think you should go back to that doctor. I just, you know, his Yelp reviews, not great. Not great. But his help reviews are top notch. I don't know what that is. Help is like Yelp, but for doctors. Oh, okay. Is it... How's it spelled? Is it health? Yeah. Health. Health. Health. Health. Health.

[00:02:53] We're back. Well thanks for listening. Merry Christmas, everyone. Happy New Year. Happy 2025, everybody. We're here, and we're ready to go. Is it 2025 in New Zealand yet? Has Mitch celebrated... It was 2025 way before, I don't know. No, like a year before us. Like before Christmas. He's like in 2028 now, I think. Yeah. If my math is... I learned math in America, so we're the best at it. And it means that Mitch celebrated the new year on December 24th. So congratulations, Mitch.

[00:03:23] We love you, buddy. We miss you. Do you have wildebeests in New Zealand? I think that they celebrate New Year's. They all throw a ring into Mount Doom. Okay, that's just, he's going to not even laugh at that joke. No, because Lord of the Rings is such an easy joke. Again, are we doing this all night, buddy? Are you okay? Is this who you want to be tonight? Is this what we need to expect? Is this what the listeners need to expect?

[00:03:49] And I say this with a begrudging, giving you a little bit too much respect. I'm expecting a bit more from you on that. It's been rough. I know, it's been rough. You want a better joke? I do want a better joke. Can't hobbit. Mitch, did you laugh at that one, buddy? I hope you did, because it was not a bad one. Not a bad one. Pretty good. Not a bad one. Ka-chow! Andy's back, ladies and gentlemen. Lightning McQueen, baby. He's here. Well, you know what?

[00:04:16] This is an episode of Go Flix Yourself that we are coming to you live from the basement of my home, 2025. It's going to be just a glorious year. Can you make it sound like when you say we're in the basement, we're in the Go Flix Yourself studios. Oh yeah, the podcast studios of Go Flix Yourself located in La Porte, Indiana, 46350. It is a shitty basement. Come on! It is not. I love this studio. We have an on-air sign now? Yeah, we got an on-air sign for Christmas. Actually, I mean an on-air sign for Christmas. That's a good point. If there was one problem with the basement is that we didn't have an on-air sign. And now we do. Do you think we could ever get the fireplace going or no?

[00:04:47] There's so many spiders in that thing. I do hate spiders. All the more reason to light it. I don't want arachnophobia in my house. Oh, would that be terrible? If we lit it and spiders just came out from everywhere? This house was built in 1936. There's a fireplace upstairs as well. And we got it looked at and they were like, it'll be $22,000 if you ever want to use this fireplace. Oh my God, why? Yeah, because all the fire brick has gotten to the point where you can't light it anymore. Otherwise, it'll like- You can do an insert though, right? Fall apart. For $22,000. That's the insert. That's the insert?

[00:05:16] Because on top of the roof, it's falling apart too and everything and there's no flash. Did you? There's water coming inside the house every time it rains. Are you serious? Yeah, we didn't know about that. Oh, wow. Get an inspection before you bought the house? Yeah, why didn't they tell you about that? We knew. That seems like a bad thing. We knew a lot of the issues. We bought it without an inspection because I had a friend of mine do an inspection and he told me about a lot of these things. He really did. Well, he does home inspections but he doesn't do it anymore. Okay, yeah, yeah. It was legit. He told me all about this.

[00:05:41] Now, also though, the seller does have to sign a sales disclosure stating that they know for a fact that there's no issues with certain major things. And honestly, there's three things right now that there's no way he couldn't have known about. So I feel like- Are you going to do the court stuff? I'm not saying he's lying but I'm thinking like he kind of lied. So we're thinking about just what our options might be on a couple of these things because you know, water inside the home seems like something you'd know about, you know?

[00:06:09] I mean like black mold I've read isn't great. Yeah, there's no black mold that I know of. So anyway- But spiders. Hey buddy, what's the last movie you saw? No. No? No. Hey, let's talk about trailers. No. Can we do a game? No. Oh, let's do a game. No. Did you write a game name? I did. You know what? I think we should start off with a game. We're not doing the game for a game. It's 2025. 2025. Yeah, exactly. It's a new year. New us. No, we're not- Hey! Hey! You want a new you? Go to the fucking YMCA. What? Not you. You're fine. What's wrong?

[00:06:39] Not you. What's wrong? You're fine. It's games time with Nate and Ben. Brad's also here but he's being a piece of shit. Games time with Nate and Ben. Brad's also here but he's being a piece of shit. Ben, let me ask you a question. Yeah. What's your question, buddy? Oh, I see. Are you going to be nice? Thanks. What's your favorite Oreo? Mega stuff. Mega stuff? I mean, I just like the cream. Have you ever had the most stuff? You like the cream in your mouth? You know what? Just sell me a tub of the cream Oreo. Have you ever had the most stuff?

[00:07:09] I mean, sure. What is the most stuff? The most stuff is like literally the most cream I've ever put in a cookie before. Like why even have the cookie part though? Like just I'll order a tub of the cream. Just give me the white stuff. I'll bet you will. You know I knew that was going to happen. You guys are degenerates. I don't know. You're the one asking for a bucket of cream. Yeah. The good stuff in the Oreos. You guys are sinners. Smear it all over your lips. Because they're sinners. Nate, what about you? Is it a classic for you? I like vanilla double stuff. Oh, you go to the vanilla.

[00:07:38] I like the vanilla wind milk. Okay. It just does it. I can eat a sleeve of it. You go for the golden Oreos over the regular Oreos? Yeah. All the time? Yep. Yep. That's my favorite. Okay. Yep. I don't typically like chocolate. Nate loves the golden showers. Throw it up. You guys are gross. Throw it up. Throw it up. Oh, that was a terrible throw. That was a terrible throw. No, don't pick it up. Don't pick it up. Don't pick it up. No, no. Pick it up. We'll pick it up until you'll eat it. Good lord. It's for the mice. Do you know that you could throw it to me? It's a frisbee. Yeah, just throw it.

[00:08:09] That landed right on you. Yours is better. Cool. Smell it. Okay. I hope for some reason somebody just accidentally fast forwarded right to that's the first thing you said. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it. Smell it before you put it in your mouth. Smell it. Take a sniff. Any predictions? It smells like Irish cream to me. It smells like you soaked it in formaldehyde. It smells like Irish cream. I don't think you know what formaldehyde smells like, Ben.

[00:08:39] Yeah, no, it tastes like it too. A little bit of perfume. Mmm. I don't like this. Mmm. No, this is good. Mmm. Also, I don't like the thins. What's the point? There's too much cookie. Oh, man. Friend of the podcast. Well, I'll say friend of the pod. I'm already bored. Sam Brodhacker. Her son, I believe Eli is 12? Maybe 13?

[00:09:06] Um, he said, I saw him after Christmas and he goes, oh, hey, I started listening to Go Flicks Yourself. Oh. And I was like, oh, okay. I'm pretty sure we're like at 18 above on the podcast. Sorry, Sam. And he's like, oh, man, no, I mean, I don't know. I just, I got to the one where you got really mad at Brad for chewing into the microphone. And like, he doesn't know that that's a running bit that we do that every single time. But it's so funny to me that that's the takeaway, right? Like the one that you got mad at. I'm like, yeah, that's a good one.

[00:09:36] I remember that one. I remember that one. He was crunching chips into the microphone. At least we knew it was a chip-based episode. There you go. That's more specific. So, hey, welcome our young listeners. What did you guys think of this one? It wasn't good. It wasn't that good. You don't think it was good? No. It's leaving a very plasticky taste in my mouth. Like a very, like, just fake. Yeah. No. It wasn't good. That's upsetting. I really like these. Tasted like Irish cream to me. It is Irish cream, Nate. You nailed it. They're Irish cream Oreo thins. They are new in 2025.

[00:10:05] They just came out at the beginning of the year. Perfect for my diet. I like them. They also, I didn't get these because I'm like, it's like, I don't need to do that. They came out with new Oreo loaded. And what they did is they are. Bacon, chives, sour cream. That's hilarious. But no, it's, they have, they're double stuff, but they've taken Oreo cookie crumbs and put them in the cream as well. So it's like Inception Oreo. Why though? It's too much.

[00:10:34] And they've done cookies and cream Oreo before. And I'm just like, that doesn't make any sense. Why are we doing this? So Oreo, come on. Sell me a cottage cheese size container. Oh, I thought you were going to say a cottage cheese Oreo. With fucking, he would eat that too because he likes cottage cheese. Oh, could you imagine an Oreo that has chunky cream in the middle of it? Oh, he would love it. He would love it. You know what? I might try that. I might take the pieces of it. You do like cottage cheese, don't you? Cottage cheese in the middle of it. I love it. It's my favorite food. Next time you have cottage cheese, take an Oreo and dip it in it. I might actually. That's not a bad idea.

[00:11:08] He's a wrist. I'm a black and white guy here. You're putting the spoon in and that's it. The only thing that goes into cottage cheese is a spoon. Pepper? Nope. Oh. No fruit, no pepper, no nothing. We've had this conversation. This is boring. Here's the thing. What's the last movie song? I want to get into it. I want to counter your Oreo thins argument. New Oreo thins. It's a slight, just a schmear of the cream and the thickest cookie you've ever seen.

[00:11:36] One of the things that Oreo thins are good for is dipping into a dessert dip. Or at Dan and Ronnie Scoobles, Friends of the Pod, we discovered something delicious, which is taking golden Oreo thins, putting a slice of strawberry on it, and a dollop of Cool Whip. Wait. Cool Whip? Cool Whip. Cool Whip? Cool Whip. Whip. Whip. Why are you saying it like that? All right. Delicious. Okay. If you've never done it before. Oh, that's a fancy. You're a fancy man, though. Golden Oreo thin, slice of strawberry, Cool Whip, yum.

[00:12:06] With strawberry, that's healthy. It's like a strawberry shortcake. Yeah, and that's what makes it healthy, and that's why I eat it all the time. Yeah, very demure. Is that what the kids are saying these days? Jesus Christ. What is with these TikTok trends? I really like them. Very demure. Very demure. Congratulations, the internet. You learned a new word. I just don't know what it means. Anyway. All right. So, yeah, that's Oreo thick mints. Oreo Irish cream. No, not thick. They're regular mint Oreos, though. They're thick-ass. They exist. Thick booty mints. I would love a good thick booty mint. I love thin mints.

[00:12:36] Oh, that's what they should make. It's just thin mints. Oh, that's what we should have. Just thin mints. Do you guys ever put thin mints in the freezer? Come on. There's no other way to eat thin mints. What are you doing over here? This is your first day? This is your first day on planet Earth? Oh, my God. Have you ever done this? This is incredible. What are you, Mormon? Hey, guys. Oh, I'm still living on the edge, putting them in the freezer. That's insulting. Why? To my fiancee, Brittany. Mormons, by and large, are very boring. And also, they've never had chocolate.

[00:13:06] That's not even remotely true. No, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they're not allowed. Chocolate has caffeine in it. Hey, you guys ever put potato chips on your bologna sandwich? It's a game changer. When's the last time you've had bologna? Have you had it in adulthood? Yeah, for sure. I like bologna. Yeah, I like bologna, too. I don't think I've had a... Do you have just like a regular of like oily cheese? Oily cheese? Like the... Oily cheese? Wait, what? Where are you shopping? The cheese with the plastic, you know, like... Like cheese singles? You mean just... Yeah, just cheese slices?

[00:13:35] Yeah, but I mean, nobody gets those cheese slices anymore. I buy them all the time! Every day! We get the fancy slices like the cheddar. No! I mean, I get those, too. Yeah. But I still get Kraft singles. Do you really? Absolutely. If I'm making a grilled cheese, it's Kraft singles, baby. I don't do that because I'm not super poor, but... Wow! That is maybe the most dickish thing he's said. And that's saying something. Here's the thing, though. You're not doing it because you're poor. You're doing it because you actually like it. I'm doing it because it's delicious. Yeah.

[00:14:06] Yeah, there's so many more better ways to make a grilled cheese. No, no, no. Trust me. I've made better grilled cheeses, but sometimes I'm in the mood for a classic Kraft singles grilled cheese. And I like the way the cheese melts. I like how gooey it is. And so the problem is with some of the other sliced cheeses... It doesn't melt well enough for you? Yeah. They don't get as gooey. Once it starts to cool off, it gets hardened. And I like that... You use shredded cheese for this. No, shredded cheese is the same problem. No, it does. Oh my God. Do you not know how to cook? Here's what I like to do. Good God. If I'm making a grilled turkey and cheese sandwich or a grilled ham and cheese sandwich,

[00:14:35] I'll always use the fancier sliced cheese you're talking about. If I'm making just a flat out regular grilled cheese... I'm going to teach you how to make grilled cheese. Kraft singles. What about a... My grilled cheese will fucking stomp your grilled cheese. Well, first you take the bread, then you undo the plastic part, put it down there, and then cook it. You don't even know. I will... Your grilled cheese, I'll curb stomp you. That's how good my grilled cheese is. I wish our listeners could see how serious his face is right now. You think it's so serious? You don't even know how to cook anything. I cook all the time.

[00:15:04] Let alone a grilled cheese. What are you talking about? You know what you cook? You cooked Kraft macaroni and cheese. That's what you said. No, Kraft macaroni and cheese is... That's blasphemy. That's good stuff. Yeah, but that's all you cook. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. Do you guys ever make grilled PB&J? No, but I do like a good hot PB&J. Oh, grill a PB&J and it'll change your life. I think that if I did a PB&J, like a grilled version, I'd add the banana. Like the king did. That would be delicious. I'm sure it's good. I love a good... You don't have to. I love a good peanut butter banana sandwich on toast. Yeah, I do too.

[00:15:34] But a grilled PB&J changed your life. So good. So, so good. One thing I've heard, and I haven't tried it yet, is that making a grilled cheese and using mayonnaise instead of butter apparently is a game changer. I mean, I like grilled ham and cheese. What's the last movie you saw? When I say mayonnaise, I mean putting it on the outside. Don't play a game? Yeah, and that's what toasts it when you cook it. Yeah, Eveline told me this trick, which does work, by the way.

[00:16:00] If you're going to make chicken breast, to make it soft, put it in mayonnaise and let it marinate for like two hours and then cook your chicken. The softest chicken you'll have. It's so good. Interesting. Just wanted you to know. Just wanted you to know that. I've been waiting to tell you that because I knew you would like that. No, I appreciate it. Yeah, and so... You want to play a game? There was a really good grilled cheese in the movie Chef. Let's... I love that. Play. I really do love that. Play a game. I just talked about it. No, we don't do games early. I want to do the game early. No.

[00:16:29] I think a lot of people do like the games. I like the game. Nate's not even ready for it. I am. Is it up? Yeah, it's right in front of them. I can see it. No one wants the game up front. I think they do. I think everyone does. I think they do. No. We're going to do it. Here's the thing is what I'm learning is that people like to have fun with the podcast. The only reason that they like... They don't like grilled cheese corners starring Fuckface Brad. I guarantee you... Listen, if you're out there and you like grilled cheese corners starring Fuckface Brad, please write a comment on the next time we're on the episode. And if you prefer us to play the games first, go ahead and comment that. Hey, I bet you a dollar we're going to get more games comments. If you like to have fun on the podcast, let us know in the comments.

[00:16:59] Yeah. Yeah. We'd like to hear it. If you think Ben couldn't cook himself out of a paper bag with a dick in it, put in the comments. Why would there be a dick in a big paper bag that I was in? Because you don't know how to cook. Those things aren't incongruous. In what? Incongruous. Incongruous? Yeah, incongruous. Incongruous? Incongruous. Incongruous. I said it fast. San Diegan. How now, brown cow? No, you're dog shit.

[00:17:33] Nate, let's go ahead and play the game. Play the game, buddy. All right. Yeah! Psych! Fuck you. No, I'm just kidding. Let's play the game. So, welcome to Go Fix Yourself. We are a movie podcast. You should have the podcast over? You know what? I'm here for it. New year, new us. Every segment, we reintroduce the podcast. We are at the beginning. We are at the cusp of 2025. And we watch trailers often here. And we talk about the movies that are coming up. And my friends here, my associates, my podcast co-hosts. Podcast pals.

[00:18:04] They are excited about films that are coming out in 2025. Cinebuds. I built a game here about films that are coming out in 2025. Oh, boy. Film friends. So, I thought it'd be fun to have a game about upcoming movies in 2025 for our listeners to know what's coming out. But also, for you guys to show that you know nothing about film coming out in 2025. Wow, that sounds rude. And so, I'm going to show you guys that you know jack shit about the movies coming out. Honestly, Brad, you better be good at this.

[00:18:34] Here's the thing is, I thought about you. Because I thought, Ben might not know all the film. Brad does this for a living. His job is literally to know what's coming out. Sure. Right? And so, that's unfair to you. So, what I'm going to do is, if you get the film that's coming out, okay, you get a point. Okay. I'm also going to give you the cast in this film. And whoever can do the best impression of one of the cast members gets to steal that point. Okay? I still think we're tilting pretty heavy with Brad here.

[00:19:03] He's got a good repertoire. You never know. I love it. I love it. All right. Let's do it. Here we go. All right. So, I'm going to give you some clues. Mm. And the first person that can guess the film that's coming out. Yes. Gets that point. Good. Again, I will then give you the cast. You can choose which cast member you're going to do an impression of. I will judge whether or not that's the winner of it. I like it. Yes. All right. Here we go. This film releases February 14th.

[00:19:31] It is directed by noted director Scott Derrickson of the horror genre. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Anya Taylor-Joy. I've seen the trailer for this. And Miles Teller. Yeah. I don't know what it's called. I think I remember what it's called now. I can read you the description, too. No. It's called The Gorge. Correct. Brad gets a point.

[00:20:01] But you can steal the point. If you can do an impression of Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, or Sigourney Weaver, that I think is good enough. Oh, man. Hi. I'm Sigourney Weaver. That does not work. Brackets. I'm sorry. I tried. All right. All right. That's why I do like the attempt. You could have just done a Ghostbusters thing. Like what? There is no Dana-only-zool.

[00:20:30] But I feel like that's less of a Sigourney Weaver than a character that she plays. That is. You're right. But it would be fun. I probably would have given you the point. Yeah, that's fair. Because I'm really easy on that. That's very fair. All right. Ow. Ow. I've got Whiplash. Miles Teller. The Gorge comes out February 14th. It is two skilled snipers receive an enigmatic assignment to stand guard on either side of an unfathomable valley, a gorge oblivious to what lurks below. The trailer looks awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You want to see this. This is up my alley. Yeah. I want to see it. I think all three of us.

[00:21:00] All right. They also call Ben's ass crack the unfathomable valley. Wow. All right. Next film. Because of its depth? No, because it's hairy. Oh. I was like, where are we going with this? Next film comes out February 28th. It stars Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Natalie Morales, and Sonequa Martin-Green. Red 3?

[00:21:31] No. No. Actually, I'm very excited about this film. Very excited about this film. I don't know what it is. I don't know. You guys might not have seen this trailer. Go watch it. It looks very, very good. I don't think I did. I don't think I know what it is. It's directed by Kyle Hausman-Stokes. It is a film called My Dead Friend Zoe. Oh, yeah. I haven't even heard of this. I have not heard of this. It looks fantastic. This is about a film where- About a film? Sorry.

[00:21:55] This is a film about two soldiers played by Natalie Morales and Sonequa Martin-Green, who one of them commits suicide and the other sees her ghost. It's about dealing with PTSD and there's comedy. There's sadness. Yes. The trailer looks fantastic. Yes. I have seen this trailer because- I may have shared it with you guys. In the trailer, nobody else can see her, but she can see her. Exactly. So she talks to her and people are like, what are we talking to? It looks fantastic. I cannot wait to see this film. I'll see the trailer for this. I haven't seen it. It looks fantastic.

[00:22:25] I cannot wait to see this. Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris is in this. Comes out February 28th, My Dead Friend Zoe. All right. Next one. Releases March 14th, 2025. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. I believe this one is- Starring Naomi Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender. I just saw the trailer for this and I don't remember what the title is.

[00:22:55] Cate Blanchett and Regine Page. Regé-Jean Page. Regé-Jean Page. I just saw the trailer. It's a great trailer. I completely am blanking on the title because it was the first time I saw the trailer and I forgot what it's called. Description. The film centers on legendary intelligent agent George Woodhouse and his beloved wife, Catherine. When she becomes a suspect of betraying the nation, George confronts the ultimate test, his loyalty to his marriage or his country.

[00:23:26] Ooh. Yeah, I don't remember. It's called I Do. Black Bag. Black Bag. Is this a film? So the trailer is out. Yeah, the trailer is good. Well, I don't know if it's online, but I saw it in theaters. Okay. Look good? Yeah, it absolutely looks great. I have not seen the trailer. Cate Blanchett actually looks particularly sexy in this movie. She ages like a fine wine. She just, I have, you guys know this, I have a huge crush on Cate Blanchett. She's just wonderful. Yeah, she's classy, wonderful, just beautiful.

[00:23:55] Easy both of you. All right. A little horned up for Cate Blanchett. We still have just one point here. We know our film. Here we go. So, release is April 4th, 2025, My Son's Birthday. Directed by Jared Hess. Mm-hmm. Starring Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge, Jack Black.

[00:24:23] I feel like you've maybe picked the more obscure movies. And Jason Momoa. Oh, this is Minecraft. Correct. This is not obscure. This is a- This was not obscure, but it seemed like it was. Why didn't you say Jack Black? He did. Oh, never mind. Right at the very end. Yeah, I'm going at least the most famous. Ah, gotcha. And so, this is a Minecraft movie that comes out April 4th. You can steal this point if you could do a Jason Momoa, Jennifer Coolidge, Danielle Brooks,

[00:24:52] Jack Black, or Emma Myers impression. Oh, my goodness. And then Brad can steal it back if he does a better one. Correct. Of another actor. But he's got to do a different actor. Okay. So, my Jack Black. You're going to choose Jack Black. Okay. That's him doing Neil Diamond in Saving Silverman. Yeah. So, again, much like your Sigourney Weaver, he's playing a character. All right. Brad, can you do-

[00:25:22] Can you do a better Jennifer Coolidge? A Jason Momoa? Yeah. I thought I was setting this up. I'll do a pretty shitty Jack Black. So, I can hear your amazing- Because we all know you've got a locked and loaded amazing Jennifer Coolidge. Oh, yeah, guys. You know, I was really going to do my Jennifer Coolidge impression, actually. I really want to tell you that I'm really- I'm so excited to be here on the show with you guys. Is she from Canada? Yes, probably. Okay. Jennifer Coolidge, you get two points for that one. Way to go. Woo! Wait, hold on.

[00:25:52] I can just keep going. What? You could do a Jason Momoa? Hey. I'm Jason Momoa. Nah, he gets a Jennifer Coolidge. All right. I'm trying. All right. A Minecraft movie. Where are you guys at on that? Are you going to see it or no? I'm going to have to take the kids. Yeah. The Rune and Ender are eight and ten years old. They love Minecraft. And I'm going to try and stop him from taking the kids. Why? Because it looks like dog shit. Do you think this will be better or worse than Super Mario Brothers? Probably worse. All right.

[00:26:21] Because Super Mario Brothers, I think, was better than a lot of people thought it was going to be. It wasn't good. Yeah. But it was better than I think a lot of people thought. I didn't like it. I liked it. I thought it was fine. A lot of people did, though. Yeah, it was fine. Chris Pratt wasn't as bad as people thought he was going to be. It didn't shit the bed hard. It was fine. All right. Moving on. This movie comes out April 18th. And it stars Delroy Lindo. Jack O'Connell. Haley Steinfeld.

[00:26:49] And Michael B. Jordan. It is directed by Ryan Coogler. This movie is called Sinners. Correct. This film is hoping to escape their troubled lives. Twin brothers return to their hometown for a fresh start, only to find that an even greater evil awaits their arrival. This is a horror, right? It's a vampire movie. Yeah, a vampire movie. Excited about this or no? Yes, very excited. I'm very excited for anything Ryan Coogler does. All right.

[00:27:19] You can steal this if you could do a good Haley Steinfeld, Michael B. Jordan, Jack O'Connell, or Delroy Lindo. I'm not going to do that. You can do Delroy Lindo without being offensive. He's a black guy. Yeah, but he has a very distinct voice. That sounds like you're baiting me. No. No. It's fine. It's fine. Go ahead. No, no. It's totally fine, man.

[00:27:46] Honestly, the only impression I think that as a white guy you're allowed to do is Morgan Freeman, just because it's so ubiquitous. Everybody has a Morgan Freeman, which that's probably why- I think a Barack Obama you could do too. Yeah, you can. I don't know. You should be. I'm just saying, Barack Obama has a very specific- I think you can do a Barack Obama just in the cadence and not try to emulate any sort of a black voice. And people would understand it because the way that he- What do you mean when you say black voice, Ben? Yeah, go ahead. What do you- Unpack that for-

[00:28:16] I'm not going to deepen my voice and sound like a caricature, Brad. Okay. It's 2025. Oh, so black people have caricature voices. That's what you're doing. Did we talk about Sinners here? Yeah, we did. We watched the trailer. I'm excited about this film. Are you excited about this, Ben? Did we watch the trailer? Yeah. You probably don't remember because you're a fucking idiot, but- No, no. That makes perfect sense. Again, Ryan Googler. I just watched Black Panther 2. Sorry. The barn and the four- Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Not a lot to be said here.

[00:28:46] Very much a teaser. The trailer. Yeah, the trailer. Yeah, we haven't gotten a full- No, no. I remember thinking, yes, I want to see this. Yeah, because they don't even fully reveal that it's a vampire movie in the trailer. But this does come out April 18th, so it's not too far away. I'm pretty excited about this. All right. Here we go. Another one. This one does not have a trailer yet, so if you know this, impressed by both of you. This releases May 9th, 2025. It is directed by Koganada.

[00:29:38] Koganada. Koganada, the filmmaker. What has he done? After Yang. Oh, this is- You love that. Yeah, I love. Which is one of your favorite films from that year, right? Absolutely. And I also saw his movie Columbus, which is also fantastic. Oh, yeah. Set in Columbus, Indiana. Yeah.

[00:30:22] Wonderful journey. Oh, okay. Okay. But this comes out in May. Cast looks fantastic. He's a director that certainly, I think, piques a lot of interest. Yeah, for sure. Will you see this? Yeah, 100%. What about you? Yeah. I'm in. All right, moving on. A film that comes out July 2nd, directed by Gareth Edwards, starring- Jurassic World Rebirth. Wow. All right. Hey, that's okay. You can get the points here. Okay. I love it.

[00:30:51] Starring Luna Blaze, Ed Screen, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, and Scarlett Johansson. I would like to hear a Mahershala Ali impression. It's Mahershala. Mahershala. Mahershala. What was the third name you said? Jonathan Bailey. Hi, I'm Jonathan Bailey. That's pretty good. Can you do a better impression of any of those? Gosh. No. Okay. I don't want to try Scarlett Johansson. I'm her.

[00:31:22] By the way, not even seeing a trailer. I didn't even know they had Jurassic World film coming out. There is no trailer yet. There's only first look photos. Did you know there was a Jurassic World film coming out? I did not. Yeah. Five years after the last one. No, it was ripe. Right before then. I know. We're all waiting with bated breath. I'm kind of with you. I'm like, do we need one? There's a very detailed plot synopsis out there. Way more. Well, I can read it for you. It's pretty long. Five years after the events of Jurassic World, Dominion. That was him saying, don't do it.

[00:31:51] The planet's environment has proven to be largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. And this just says, they find the dinosaurs. Right? Oh, that's not. No. No, I know. It goes on and on and on. Like a script online or something? No, it's not a script. No. It's just that they did a full press release when they announced that production had begun. And it just tells you when it's set, what happens. I'll keep going for you. Yeah, keep going. All right. The planet's environment has proven to be largely inhospitable to dinosaurs.

[00:32:17] The few that remain inhabit remote equatorial regions with conditions resembling those where they were once plentiful. Zora Bennett, a skilled expert in covert operations, is recruited to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and team leader Duncan Kincaid. Dr. Loomis? On a top secret mission to acquire genetic material from the three largest creatures in the world's tropical biosphere.

[00:32:43] This genetic material holds the key to a drug that will astonishingly save human lives. He wants to hunt. Zora's mission intersects with a civilian family whose boating excursion is interrupted by roaming aquatic dinosaurs, leaving them stranded on an island where they must face a terrifying, ominous revelation that has been hidden from the world for decades. Michael Myers is on that. I did. I saw that. I'm like, what? I could not believe how much they revealed about the story.

[00:33:12] And Mahershala Ali's character dies in the third act. It's like, that movie comes out, what, two months after A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and there's nothing out about that film at all. They're keeping that under wraps. Yeah, I'm interested because of Gareth Edwards, and that's really the only thing that's keeping me interested. What has he done? He did Rogue One and the Godzilla reboot. Okay. And so... So, yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah.

[00:33:40] I'm interested because of that, but at the same time... What are we wanting to see happen, though? What are we wanting to see happen? That's the thing is, like, I don't know what you'd do with the Jurassic franchise at this point. Like, you've exhausted the most interesting thing about it. Like, just go and make a different movie about dinosaurs that isn't tied to the Jurassic series. Like, doesn't have to continue the mythology. Is there a tone change that we want to see shift? There's a way to do anything, right? Like, you can make a good movie here. Do we have Dark Knight of Jurassic World? Yeah. They made a bunch of Batmans, and then, you know, Dark Knight was good.

[00:34:08] But there's a much more potential with Batman because there's such a big rogues gallery, and there are so many different interpretations of Batman. With Jurassic Park, like, I don't know what else you'd do with dinosaurs without doing something that isn't a Jurassic Park movie. Like, I honestly think I'm of the mind that there never should have been more than two Jurassic Park movies. Like, the first one, it's like, okay, they had a park. It didn't go very well. It was fine. Oh, there was a second park that they did to test? Yeah, okay, I'll buy that.

[00:34:38] I'm not buying any more of this fucking, like, dinosaur accident shit. Listen, we're dumb. We're not that dumb as a species. No, we are, though. That's the thing. We really are. I do understand rebooting it with Jurassic World. Yep. But then what happened... For two films. Yeah, but what followed after that did not capitalize on the potential of introducing dinosaurs into the larger world. And I didn't hate Jurassic World 1, right? I didn't hate that film. I thought it was fun. I didn't hate it either. I didn't love it.

[00:35:02] No, but it was a good going-to-the-theater film to see with dinosaurs a reboot of this franchise. I didn't hate it. It was fine. By the third one, I'm like, okay. I was there with the second one. Yeah, I get it. Like, it's just enough. I just don't... Just go make... Do literally anything else with dinosaurs. You don't need to tie it to the Jurassic franchise. I want them to do it again. I want them to do a third one, like, you know, the first one, right? They have a park, and then Jurassic World, they rebooted it, they had a park.

[00:35:32] I want them to reboot it again, where some other Elon Musk-type trillionaire thinks like, these two idiots were idiots. I can do it even better. Yeah. And make an even better park, and then make some crazy shit happen, and then that doesn't work either. I'll watch that one. The only way I'm fine with it is if they do it on the moon. Fine. Here's where I think this... I don't know this, but based on this... Space T-Rex. They've got a boating family. I think this is going to be more driven in water, right? Which could be a fun shift. Water dinosaurs. They have not done a ton of water... Water Jurassic World. It's right there.

[00:36:02] They have not done a ton of, like, the water aquatic dinosaurs. They could be doing some fun things with that. Jurassic Water World? Would that have been a better one? No. Are you just not having fun right now? No. Why not? I'm so sick of dinosaurs. All right. Just a couple more here. This is a story all about how... My life got flipped turned upside down. No, this comes out... I like to take a minute. I'll tell you how I became a prince of a town called Bel Air.

[00:36:31] This comes out August 1st. It is a story written by Seth MacFarlane. Started making trouble in my neighborhood. Oh, boy. And it stars Busta Rhymes. Did you say Seth MacFarlane? Yeah. Busta Rhymes wrote the story. Busta Rhymes! It also stars Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant? Durand. No, Kevin Durand. Oh. Who's the villain of every... You know, like he's a great villain. He's a good. He's a big beefy guy. You like him. Paul Walter Hauser.

[00:37:00] I think we are all fans of Paul Walter. I love Paul Walter Hauser. Yeah. I love me some P... PWH. PWH. Good job. Nice job with the letters. So tired. Pamela Anderson. Finally. And Liam Neeson. This is directed by Akiva Schaefer. It's the Naked Gun. I did not know Seth MacFarlane wrote the story to this. Well, so I would imagine there's probably been rewrites since then. Because Seth MacFarlane at one point was supposed to be directed. And he's a producer of this too.

[00:37:29] So I didn't know that he had it. It actually kind of made me a little more excited about this. I like Seth MacFarlane. I love Akiva. Liam Neeson is very inspired casting. Because Liam Neeson can easily do deadpan serious comedy like Leslie Nielsen. Oh, absolutely. And he needs a reboot in his career. He needs something new. He needs something different. Yeah. Other than the films that Ben watches. I just watched one the other night. And so this comes out August 1st. This is the new Naked Gun.

[00:37:59] He is the son of Frank Trebin. Of police. This is Frank Trebin Jr. Paul Walter Hauser plays his kind of partner. His kind of partner. Are you guys excited about this? I am very excited for this. Only because even though Akiva Schaffer has never had a box office hit. He's due. No, I don't even care if it's. It's not his fault. But you love his films. No, it's not his fault. And I don't care if it is a box office hit.

[00:38:29] All I know is that every movie that they have made. I have laughed my fucking ass at me. And has become a cult favorite. And are clearly and consistently some of the best comedies of the century. Whether people like them or not, you're wrong. They're hilarious. You're just behind. Yeah. That's all he makes is movies that you're not ready for yet. Yeah. It's just. Truly, it's above your pay grade. Wait six months. Wait a year. And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, have you seen this? It's just nobody's ahead of the curve with him. Yeah. Yeah. No.

[00:38:58] And I loved watching The Naked Gun when I was younger. This hit me in the funny bone when I was young. Leslie Nielsen was somebody I just thought was the funniest person. Which is odd, right? Because I was 10, 11, 12 years old watching these films. And I should rewatch them because I haven't watched them in 25 to 30 years. I rewatched them not too long ago. Yeah. And I'm sure there's a lot of adult humor in there I didn't get at 10. But just so funny, the stuff that I did get.

[00:39:28] And I loved these films. So excited to see these back and see what a re-envisioning of this looks like. But also, I know it'll be a proper homage to Leslie Nielsen. It's going to be great. I really think it's going to be great. Yeah. And you and I, I've started re-listening very diligently to the Lonely Island podcast with Seth Meyers. Akiva's been gone a lot because he's also... No, Jorma's been gone.

[00:39:57] Oh, Jorma's filming the film somewhere. Yeah. He was filming in Finland for a couple months, yeah. And Akiva and Seth and Andy have been there. But I'm almost caught up, not quite, but so funny. These guys are truly one of the best comedy minds we have now. All three of them. Yeah. Which is so funny. I'm so excited about this. Will you see this in the theaters? Absolutely. Is it going to the theaters? Yes.

[00:40:34] Do you mean to tell me? All right. This cereal is made exclusively for children, and I won't be followed if I make a purchase. All right. That's from Tad, too. Two more. I'm sorry, but I thought we were doing the thing where he gets the movie right. Oh, yeah. That is true. And then I did the impression. All right. So did I get the... You're doing Liam Neeson? Yeah. Was that, just to be sure, Liam Neeson? I wouldn't say if that was your Pamela Anderson or your Liam Neeson. I feel like you didn't like it. Who else?

[00:41:04] I thought it was very good. Who else was on the cast list? Pamela Anderson, Paul Walterhauser, Kevin Durant, or Busta Rhymes. Busta. Go. Everybody knows the one I do. I got to rap. I got to rap. I got to rap. I got to rap. I got to rap. I got to rap. Was that the Tasmanian Devil? That's how good Busta Rhymes is rapping. Do you do a Paul Walterhauser? Gosh, if I can remember any lines that he's done.

[00:41:33] I mean, he's really just like... No, I can't even think of anything. The first time I think I saw him was in Black Klansman. He's so good in Black Klansman. He's so good. Such a good, schlubby little idiot. Schlubby little idiot. No, but you notice him. I'm like, who is this guy? And then when he's in I, Tonya, he's totally fantastic. And then I saw him in that really dumb movie, Queen Pins. Oh, yeah.

[00:42:03] He's in Queen Pins? Yeah. He plays the... He's the agent who's trying to stop him. The loss prevention officer, right? So good. It's the postal guy. Yeah, I watch Queen Pins, actually. So it's not... I mean, it's so paint by numbers, but I did like it. Yeah. He's great in it, though. He is one of those actors that you're going to look back at his career and go, the dude just didn't miss. You need to watch, if you guys haven't seen it... Richard Jewell. No, watch... No, he's great in that, though. I've seen that. Blackbird. It's an Apple TV Plus series. I've not seen this, but people were raving.

[00:42:33] He's amazing in it. Amazing. So good. And he won some awards, I think, for that, didn't he? Probably. And I forget who's the... Taron Egerton. Yeah. Taron Egerton. He's also in the Super Troopers, too. Taron Egerton? No, Paul Wachterhouser. Oh, yeah. All right. Just two more guys. He's a Canadian Farva. Right. Two more. All right. Brad, I think you're winning. Probably. What? This film releases August 8th.

[00:42:57] is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, and Leonardo DiCaprio. I don't remember the title. I know it's a longer, complicated title. I think it actually has two titles. And there's no information of what this film is about. Yeah. I don't know. We the people united standing above all else.

[00:43:25] No, the working title right now is The Battle of Bacton Cross. Yes. I don't know if it'll stay that, but that is the working title right now that we see. There was another one before this. It's the most updated one. That was my second guess. Do you have a good impression of either Leo, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, or Benicio Del Toro? I want to hear your Regina Hall. That's what we should have done. Next time, you're going to assign him to do one, and he's going to assign you.

[00:43:52] The only one from Benicio Del Toro that comes to mind is the scene where it's the beginning of The Usual Suspects, where he's like, in English, please. And he goes, what about you? Do you do any? Do you do a Sean Penn? I can do Sean Penn as I Am Sam. What does that look like? What's that look like? You know I can't do that. Or I can do Leonard DiCaprio as Arnie from Gilbert Grave.

[00:44:22] Stay with Arnie Gilbert. Oh! Oh my god! He did it! He did it! It made me so uncomfortable. Why is that so uncomfortable? You're not supposed to do it. I don't know. It's a burger barn, Gilbert. A burger barn. You m-m-m-m-make me happy. Whoa! That's Ben Stiller. Too far. Too far. That's Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder. It's a really good performance by Leonard DiCaprio. And Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder. Last one, guys. Last one.

[00:44:51] You m-m-m-make me happy. This releases November 7th. Oh my god, that reminds me. One of my favorite... I laughed so hard at it because I couldn't believe that they did it. It's when they... After they show the clip from Simple Jack and it cuts to Maria Menounos doing the report, it's like, the question is, will Jack m-m-make money out of them? I was like, oh my god! I mean, they got people, obviously, to go all in in that movie. Like, that was fantastic. It was so funny. Yeah.

[00:45:21] All right. This is the last one. For our listeners, you've fast-forwarded to this point. All right. This release is November 7th. You fast-forwarded to this point. It's directed by Edgar Wright. Do you guys like Edgar Wright? I do like Edgar Wright, and the movie is The Running Man. Come on, man. I didn't even know they were remaking it. I know. They're not. It's a different movie. Fuck you. No, I'm kidding. This stars William H. Macy, Michael Cera, Lee Pace, Josh Brolin, Katie O'Brien,

[00:45:50] and Glenn Powell. There we go. There it is. So, do you do a good Glenn Powell or Josh Brolin or Michael Cera? It would be amazing if I had a locked and loaded Michael Cera. I do not. Yeah, no. Oof. Yeah, no. I don't think I... Glenn Powell's just so handsome. I can't pull that off at all. No, I'm excited about this. I just sound like a fat Glenn Powell whenever I talk.

[00:46:20] Do you do any of those? No. What about William H. Macy? He doesn't have any distinct... I think he does. I think people... No. I think somebody could find a William H. Macy somewhere. An impression. I doubt it. Probably. Are you guys excited to see this? I am very excited to see this. I think The Running Man is ripe for a redo. And Edgar Wright is the right person to do it. Edgar Wright is one of my favorite filmmakers.

[00:46:48] Honestly, there are a lot of Schwarzenegger movies that could be up for remake. Junior? That would make very, very... Kindergarten Cop. I'm not joking. Something like Kindergarten Cop would absolutely work. Those are films that we don't have enough of, honestly. Batman and Robin. So, I didn't include a lot of films there. But these are films that are coming out that I actually... A lot of them I forgot about or I didn't know about. I am excited about 2025 in film. Are you guys excited?

[00:47:17] What film maybe are you guys most excited about? Not in this list, but that is coming out or films that you're really excited about in 2025? I am very excited for Mickey 17. Don't know what that is. Yeah, you do. It's the one with Robert Pattinson with the clones and stuff. Oh, yeah. I'm excited for that one, too. Yeah, it's what you should be. I don't remember titles for things. I almost knew that, but I thought that was too obvious. What do you... You thought it was too obvious? Because we've talked about it. Oh, gotcha. We're excited like that one was...

[00:47:44] Ben, there's one you should be very excited for, and I'm surprised Nate didn't throw it on here. It's the new Predator movie. Mm-hmm. Because, again, I knew you were going to get it. Predator Badlands. If you would have said Dan Trachtenberg, I would have said Predator, but I didn't know the subtitle. I can't remember it. Guillermo del Toro has a Frankenstein movie coming out. Who does? Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro. Mission Impossible Final Reckoning is coming out. The third... Nobody cares. Shut up, ugly. The third...

[00:48:12] I mean, it sounds more like these missions are pretty possible. The third... At this point. Has that ever been said? The third Knives Out movie. Guys, is that a joke? Is that a joke? Has that been said? Did I invent that joke? The third Knives Out movie is coming out. Is it? Put... Wake up, dead man. Get those Thin Mints out of the freezer and make that bologna and cheese sandwich. Let's talk about how these missions are pretty possible. Comes out sometime this year. No specific date, but it's coming out this year. Hey, Brad, do you like our new movie critic characters?

[00:48:41] Guys that just think things are really easy? They're not really characters. It's just you being a dumb fuck as usual. Pretty possible mission these days. Nate's doing a character, though. Pretty good. I didn't know Knives Out had a new film coming out. I'm very excited about that. Well, at this point, shouldn't they be putting the knives back in somewhere? It's called Wake Up, Dead Man. Knives Out, Wake Up... What's it... Where's it set? What's it... Do you know anything about it? I don't think they reveal anything about that yet. Who's the cast? Anybody? Do they... No, actually, nobody's in it this time.

[00:49:11] Yeah, it's a real... I honestly have not heard about it. Brad, what's going on? I'm going to tell you the cast here in a second. Please do. So, the people who are in this movie are... Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Kaylee Spaney, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Hayden Church. Stop saying bad people. Danny Masterson. I can't wait to see that. I can't wait for movies. Netflix? Is it coming out? Netflix?

[00:49:42] Yes. I think it's Netflix. Because I did get the next two, I think it was. So... All right, we did it. Well, I'm excited, guys. And let us know what you're most excited about in the comments about 2025. It's going to be a great year in film. I know it. And obviously, there's going to be films that come out this year that haven't even been announced. And we're going to be here to review trailers, these kind of things. Yeah, we're going to be all horned up for movies, guys. Yeah, I think we just want to reverse order then because... Speaking of. We did the game, so we just lead right into trailers today. I like it. What are you doing?

[00:50:12] It's new year, new us. So, let's just talk about some trailers that we watched. Nate, what's the last movie? Hashtag live, laugh, love. Nate, what's the last movie you saw? The last movie I saw actually... It was a trailer. ...was Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. Oh, really? You just felt like a re-watch? I did feel like a re-watch. And... Hey, real quick. I thought we were on the same page. What? I thought we were going to do what we want to do tonight. It's games and then the trailers. Did you want to watch it? We'll just tell you fuck it up. No, we're not doing trailers right now.

[00:50:41] We're talking about the movies. You went right back into what we know about. I didn't know that we were doing that good thing. I thought it was couch buddies. Oh, yeah. No, we are. You guys can be couch buddies afterwards. Brad's on the couch over there. You're on the couch with me. You can be couch buddies afterwards. You guys can kiss. You can touch each other's crevices. It's fine. It's fine. Have you heard of this film, by the way, that stars Paul Rudd? Okay. And Jenna Ortega. You watched Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. Wakanda Forever. I did watch Black Panther, Wakanda Forever.

[00:51:10] And I hadn't seen it in like a year, right? Yeah. Actually, you and I went to a showing of this before it came out. Press screen, yeah. And I don't know why. I just wanted to watch this film. I hadn't seen it in a while. And I wanted to know if it still felt emotionally resonant to me. Because I remember seeing it in theater. And obviously, you and I weren't sure exactly what they were going to do. And feeling very emotionally attached to this film.

[00:51:36] And one of the things that I loved about this film, even in the rewatch, is... And I don't think it gets the appropriate amount of appreciation. Is obviously, Ryan Coogler's in a really tough position when he's making this film. Really, really tough position. Because not only does he have the weight of changing the story, right? You've got to change the story from Chadwick Boseman, who is a... I mean, he does a film of Black Panther.

[00:52:05] And obviously, he's got the residual Avengers and these kind of things. But Chadwick Boseman quickly becomes a beloved member of the MCU. Absolutely. He is so good at this. Black Panther is huge. And also just symbolic to so many people, right? So there's a lot of... In the MCU, more than most franchises, you know that Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, right? You know that Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt. But in the MCU, Chris Hemsworth is Thor, right?

[00:52:34] Robert Downey Jr., it's like nobody could possibly be Iron Man except for him. And Chadwick Boseman, man, that's Black Panther. So then with his unfortunate passing, it was a big question mark, right? About how they were going to do a lot of things in the MCU. And I think that we can say that they did the best, obviously, they could. And it was a very good movie. Yeah. Right? What I love about this film, and a couple different things, but one of the things I love most about this film

[00:53:01] is the air that Ryan Coogler gives it to breathe in certain times, right? Where... Well, it kind of has very clean air. They... Yeah, they do. That's very clean. But where they actually... Yeah. He mentions, actually, how clean the air is. Yep. But where there's an emotionally resonant scene... I don't have a problem. It was actually one of the smartest things you've said on this podcast. They could have filled it with music.

[00:53:30] They could have filled it with... I don't know. No, I don't like this. Play the thing. Do the thing. Be normal. Shit on me when you're supposed to shit on me. It throws me off. You're fucking agreeing with me. They're like, what the fuck are you doing? When he's right, he's right. I mean, Wakanda's got clean air. You know, there's advanced technology. Fuck you. No, they do. They genuinely do. That's... I mean, they agreed with you before I did.

[00:54:00] I... But for some reason... Honestly, for some reason, he said it and I took it. They legitimately mentioned it in the film. And I'm like, you know what? I made a good point without even thinking about it. And then when you agreed, I fucking hated it. I got really upset. I know you did. Did you want me to say it was stupid? I wanted you to refute it so I could be right and you could be wrong. But no, instead of... I mean, the technology they have is incredible. I'm sure their filter system is wonderful. It's probably the cleanest air you can get anywhere.

[00:54:29] I mean, I don't know if Vibranium does that, but I guess it does. When you say something smart, I got to let you have it. But frequently, you say the dumbest thing. But when I do... I'm not having a good time. It was me and Nate against you for a while, and that felt good. And somehow that got eroded real quick. Like, turned on a dime, and all of a sudden, he's like, I'm not doing trailers. Let's just talk about the last movie I saw. And then you're agreeing with me. It's just... It feels... My stomach hurts. It's 2025, baby.

[00:55:00] So, back to my... Yeah, let's talk about your movie. Real quick. I appreciate, even in the rewatch, the decision he made to let the film breathe. It's not a perfect film. But there's some emotionally resonant things. And he doesn't include music. He just includes space. Yeah. And that was a specific decision, and I want to point out that it was the right decision. Because there's so many people mourning at the time, and you could have put a song in there.

[00:55:29] You could have done a lot there. Yeah. And he chose not to. He just chose... There's a scene specifically where Shuri's crying. And he focuses on Shuri crying for what seems like two minutes. Yeah. And he kind of intersperses some cutbacks to Chadwick Boseman and stuff like that. But it is a very, almost uncomfortable scene of having to deal with your emotions without the distraction of music. And I just...

[00:55:57] Ryan Coogler made such a good and powerful decision by doing that. And I just... When I rewatched it, I appreciated that. I thought it was a really good decision. And I think that he did a good job of crafting the story around having a villain like Namor take advantage of Wakanda when they're at their lowest point. Yep. And they don't know what to do. Correct. They're kind of without the leader who had done so much for them. And Angela Bassett does a great job with her performance. It's why she got nominated for an Oscar for it.

[00:56:27] Rightly so. Yeah. Yeah. No, I dig it. I think it has its flaws for sure because it's tough to do that movie and try and fill in the gaps when you had to deal with such tragedy. But I think he did the best possible job you could have asked for. And my favorite Marvel is a Marvel that deals with larger questions, right? The larger questions of life, right? Shuri's dealing with the questions of reality versus myth, science versus, you know... And in a sense, kind of science versus religion, science versus myth, science versus...

[00:56:57] You know... And she's dealing with these deeper questions of life about what she believes in light of the ancestors. These stories that she's heard and she's grown up with that you could tell she's not even sure if she believes. I love the idea that Ryan Coogler is not afraid of dealing with that in light of Chadwick Boseman dying, right? And so, again, I actually appreciated this movie, I think, on rewatch more than I even did the first time. Not because it's...

[00:57:26] I thought, oh, it's a perfect film. But because I saw what Ryan Coogler is trying to do. He's trying to weave in harder questions about life. Yeah. And he has a task that most directors don't. Not only did he not know, no one knew Chadwick Boseman was dying. Yeah. And he has to help everyone through this. Yeah. And he does it in such a beautiful way. Kudos to him. Yes. I mean, just such a good job. Agreed. What about anything else good? I did. I watched with my son, Finn.

[00:57:56] And we did a full rewatch of Lord of the Rings extended edition. Hell yeah. Whoa. Once a year. You got to do it once a year. Four and a half hours per film. You have not seen them since they came out. You should. And you should watch them with the boys. Yeah, you should absolutely watch them with the kids. My son had not seen the films at all. So he's not seen... Whoa! And so we watched them all together. And he's like, Dad, these are fantastic.

[00:58:25] And he was shocked. He's like, we could have been watching these the whole time? And what he was shocked by is, you know, these films are old. According to him, right? They're old films. They're over 20 years old now. He's like, Dad, I didn't think they looked old. Right? And that's a testament to the practical effects. There's very few... Well, not even just practical effects. The makeup. Weta did such a good job, even with the digital effects, that most of the digital effects have aged very well. They really have.

[00:58:54] These films are still fantastic. But that's at the forefront of that, though, is because they didn't CGI like an army of horde of people. They had actors doing that. Well, no, but they also... There is a lot of CGI. No, there's... Yeah, and actually... There's actually no CGI in these films. Actually, Two Towers and Return of the King, they were actually... Oh, I've never seen those. They were actually very innovative because that's where they came up with the software. I think it's called Massive or something like that, that allowed them to create huge

[00:59:23] armies where the characters themselves were driven by artificial intelligence at the time so that they actually did act as individual soldiers in the army. That's right. If you see, there's one guy in the back just spinning in a circle. Well, no. So they pointed out, actually, that when they did tests, they did have some who ran away from the battle. They were like, nah, fuck this. Which, honestly, would be hilarious. But no, like, yeah, the... Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. But no, even the CGI... Most of the CGI stuff, it still holds up.

[00:59:51] And really what it is, it's about the work pipeline. Because they gave them... They had such a long lead and they took their time getting those movies right that they knew what the character design was ahead of time. They figured out during pre-production. There wasn't these last minute changes in post-production. They had all this time to figure out because they shot the entire trilogy at once. And so you have that much time. You know what you're doing. You're not rushing anything. The visual effects artists aren't being pushed to the brink and being taken advantage of. As they are now, right? Yeah, exactly.

[01:00:19] I mean, the visual artists as a whole right now, VFX is a market that everyone is tired. Right? There's just not enough of them. They should just suck it up and do better, though. But one of the things that Finn noticed, you know, he's like, And again, my son is 14 years old. So films that are 20 years old are old films. They're older than he is. That's like us at that age looking at stuff from the 70s. Yeah. And he's like, Dad, you don't even have to redo these films. These are perfect films, right? And I'm not lying. They are. They're still perfect films.

[01:00:50] And not because the story. The stories are fantastic. There's nothing wrong there. They still look like perfect films. You couldn't do enough to make them better. Right now. Did you watch anything else? Did you do anything else? I mean, we haven't podcasted in a couple of weeks. Because those are long films. The only other thing I did watch is a couple, and I don't know if we're going to talk about it on this podcast, a couple comedy specials. Oh. Yes. Please.

[01:01:19] Did you guys watch the new Nate Bargatze? Yes. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Your friend Nate Bargatze. What did you think? It's fantastic. It's fantastic. I thought it was great, too. It's fantastic. I laughed consistently. It is Nate Bargatze doing... He does a couple things that he did on SNL in this. But you did say in a text that you didn't think it was... It's still pretty far below Tennessee Kid, though. Tennessee Kid's the all-timer, though. But the hard thing with Nate Bargatze is... The drop-off is not significant, though.

[01:01:47] I watched Jim Gaffigan and his... I didn't think that was great, by the way. That was the other one I watched. His earlier stuff, you know, you can see where he peaked. Nate Bargatze's still very, very high level where he was. John Mulaney, his three specials in a row there were all very high level. Nate Bargatze's still riding this high level. Just because I was able to order them in my enjoyment, it wasn't a huge... There's not a huge departure here. I mean, Gaffigan's got, what, 15 specials? Well, exactly. It's harder for him, too.

[01:02:14] But even like Chris Rock has a bit of a falling... Like, Nate is not yet falling off. I mean, he's still riding his moment, for sure. I think he's probably got at least one more good one at this level. And then people are going to maybe get a little like, okay, I've seen this before. What did you think of Jim Gaffigan's most recent? It was fine. It was fine. I laughed. But I didn't... Jim Gaffigan at his worst is still better than most people out there. I just didn't out loud laugh a lot. I just thought, this is really good. It was... Skinny Gaffigan's not as funny. And that was funny. It's still very good.

[01:02:43] So much of the joke is about Skinny Gaffigan, right? And so it's good. It was not... I was actually... I'll say, I was a little disappointed. It's hard, though, after the... I mean, my God, he's been doing it for so long. But... So I also watched Fortune Feimster. Is that right? Fortune Feimster. Feimster. Her most recent. What's interesting is Fortune's a great comedian. She's funny. But when you go Nate Bargatze... Yeah.

[01:03:12] ...and you go Jim Gaffigan, even when Jim Gaffigan's not his best, and then you watch Fortune... Now, did you watch, like, back to back to back? Yeah. It was... Well, like, not... Three hours in. Not three hours. Nate had his own laugh in. She's not as funny, honestly. No, it was like the next day. Physically laughing. It was the next day. What it was is, I'm like, this is good. But you get that there... It's like the difference between watching Michael Jordan and Steve Kerr play. Right? Steve Kerr is going to beat 99% of people when he's playing,

[01:03:41] but he's not as good as Michael Jordan ever. Right? Well, yeah, they're just at a different level. Exactly. Fortune Feimster is hilarious, though. She's so funny, but she's not Nate Bargatze. Yeah. And so it's so interesting to watch it in the level of, like, just in the style and the production and all those things. She's just... Her special where she talks about Jason Momoa and being on the side of the road is... I don't remember what that one's called.

[01:04:10] I think it was her last one before this one. It was very, very, very funny. The one I watched was Crushing It. Have you seen that one? I've not seen that one. That's her newer one. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's the most recent one. And it's good. It is very good. And I want to give props to her. She's a great comedian. You should watch this. I want to give props to the comedians who've opened for Fortune Feimster, too. Oh, fuck you. I think that they're all very funny. Brad opened for it at the drop, and he'll never let us live it now. Oh, but... But... I...

[01:04:51] But... And then the final one is... Farmer friend Waterboy over here. I watched... The most recent... The most recent Melissa Villasenor special as well. Oh, yeah. Was it good? It's pretty good. It's pretty good, Melissa Villasenor. Thanks, guys. Hey, thanks. Hey, it's me, Melissa Villasenor. Hey, thanks. Thanks, guys.

[01:05:17] She and Maria Bamford both have that thing where their real voice is a comedy voice. And when they do fake voices, they sound like regular people. How are you? Yeah. I'm Maria Bamford. She's got that sexy voice. What is going on here? Melissa Villasenor is a fantastic impressionist. She is. She's very good. She's an okay stand-up comedian. And that's typically impressionists are. I think Dana Carvey, same way.

[01:05:45] I actually don't love Dana Carvey's stand-up. Frank Caliendo. Phenomenal impressionist. But all that is, all they're doing is bridging the impressions, right? And that's typically what you're getting at. I don't hate it. No, I don't either. Exactly. But I'm also not lining up to be like, wow, can't wait for original material from these people. That's not why I'm watching. I would love to see more Frank Caliendo. So that's what I watched a lot of stand-up comedians. Hey, it's me, Frank Caliendo. You guys ever put Thin Mints in the freezer? That's what he would do.

[01:06:16] Al Pacino, putting Thin Mints in the freezer. Hooah! Those are cold! I watched Frank Caliendo's Comedy Central Presents so much when I was in high school because his impressions, I thought they were so good. Boom, look at all his ear holes. That was like at the height of Frank Caliendo, though. He was doing NFL stuff. He was doing everything. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Because he did a John Madden, right? Yeah. John Madden. And then very famous. I mean, George Bush was so impersonatable back then. I mean, everybody had one, right?

[01:06:46] His was very good, though. His was the only one I felt that was close to Will Ferrell level of good. All right. But that's what I watched. Enjoyed my time. And honestly, watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it is a big investment. But if you've got kids, and especially if they're, you know, let's say 11... If you've got kids in 13 and a half hours. 11. Oh, I mean, right over Christmas break. That's the kind of fun to do those films. Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, they have a tradition where they rewatch them

[01:07:16] around Christmas time every year. Every night, we just watch one, right? So four hours every night, we're like, okay, let's do it. Let's do another one. One of my favorite theatrical experiences, and I think I've talked about on this podcast before, is me, my sister, Caitlin, and my cousin, Cameron, all went to see the extended editions in theaters in a single day. We spent all day in the theater. He pissed himself. Could not have imagined a better theatrical experience. By the way, that was one of the fun things about talking to Finn about this, is because I saw these films, not the extended editions, but I saw these films in the theater, right?

[01:07:45] And I told him, buddy, can you imagine watching this and seeing the way it ended? And we went to see these movies at midnight, too. Yep. And then you're saying, I have to wait another year until the next one comes out, right? Because I'm certainly not reading the freaking books. I know, but a fucking book. I'm not reading the fucking books, man. Hell, goddamn, I'm going to read old books. Come on, get out here with the books. Book reading, motherfucker. Come on now.

[01:08:12] But no, yeah, seeing the extended editions in theaters is such a treat. Brady Bear, what'd you see, bud? I honestly didn't watch... Hell, I'll pay a hooker to read them books to me. You know, it don't work no much anywhere. So I get over there and slap around a little bit. It ain't going to work. We've got about four and a half hours left on this whole night. Come on now. The whole night. Come on now, Chessie. Get to reading. I know it's hard. Sound them out. Era gone. My boner gone.

[01:08:43] That's such a great Larry the Cable Guy, Vince. She tried her hardest. You know, she got her readers. You know, that was just like a pair of guys she brings with her. The reading gets passed down through like four different people. No, it is. It was two security guys. They come in like, hell, I don't know how to pronounce that name. He gives it to her kid who she brings with her. Oh, absolutely. He was 16. And good Lord could he read. Damn, man. He put his glasses on. So fast. So fast.

[01:09:13] I was like, slow down. And then I kept telling him. I was like, hey, man. Turn that book around. Let me send pictures. He kept saying there's no pictures. I was like, how the hell am I supposed to know what these things look like? And he said something about like, imagine them. Well, I said, imagine I ain't going to pay your mom for the whole time. I don't know why, but it's like a good sweet spot. Ridiculous, you know? I don't think you've ever laughed at Ben that much ever. So anyway. This is one of the best stand-up bits he's ever done. To be honest, if I'm being complete, I fell asleep.

[01:09:41] So Lord of the Rings, you know, you started pretty good, but couldn't keep my attention. I don't know if it was him reading it or the content was just not up my alley. But I'll finish it sometime. I still got her number. Maybe I'll get back into it. And scene. I actually didn't watch too much as far as movies are concerned. I only saw a couple things. I re-watched some Christmas movies during the holidays. Did you watch Shrinking yet? Because I'm so freaking pissed. No, I'm waiting for Brittany to be back. We're going to watch it together.

[01:10:10] Because we watched the first season together. That was one of the things I did watch. By the way, did you watch the last episode? Oh yeah, of course I did. I sobbed. I cried like a baby. I sobbed in that last episode of Shrinking. I've heard it's great, and I'm very excited to watch it once. It needs all the awards. It's all the awards. Well, there's some of them it can't get. It won't get a Nobel Prize. It's so good. It won't get an Oscar. It is a rare show that got even better in the second season than it was in the first, and I love the first season. It's so good.

[01:10:39] I just don't know why you don't like it enough to watch it. I would love to watch it, but I decided to wait. Harrison Ford's Viking Funeral. I know. Wow. Cool. Oh, he hasn't seen it yet. I did go to the theaters to see a couple things. I saw Nosferatu. Actually, before I get to that, I want to talk about the things I watched that weren't really movie-related, because I had some fun with some- No, so we're not even- it's not even a TV or movie podcast now? Yeah, we're just talking about- I hung out with some friends, and I want to talk about what I hung out.

[01:11:08] I watched a YouTube video where a guy just ate a steak sandwich, and it looked delicious. No, so one of the things- I think I mentioned this before, that one of the things I got into earlier this year is watching YouTube compilations of cartoon blocks from like- We're talking years, decades ago. This is not only movie and TV, but also YouTube clips. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, these aren't YouTube clips. Tick tocks? Are we going to do tick tocks now? No, this is- Did you see that llama that had peanut butter? And he was like, look, he's talking. It was so fucking cool. These aren't YouTube clips.

[01:11:37] These are recorded blocks that actually aired on TV, like on Nickelodeon or Disney channels, stuff like that, with the commercials intact, like in between the episodes. So it's a total nostalgic spin. And so I went and they released specific holiday blocks because- Who's they? The YouTube channels that have their retro-based, so they're all entirely geared towards having these blocks of cartoons from decades ago. And so there's 80s, and there's 90s, and there's 2000s, and because these channels did

[01:12:06] specific holiday blocks, they have Christmas compilations. Like real sex? Just like real sex. Real sex followed by Herman's head, followed by autopsy on HBO. But that's only because Herman's head, they thought it was a sex thing too. And then they also thought it was part of an autopsy. Right, exactly. It fit right in the middle. It's a real weird block. It was a good HBO sandwich. Yeah, that's right where HBO had really bad communication about what was going on. They didn't know what was going on.

[01:12:32] But no, so I found some fun Christmas compilations of cartoons. So one of the ones, I actually texted you guys about this because one of my favorite things to watch for Christmas is Garfield's Christmas special. Oh, I didn't know- I know you texted me about that. And what's so ironic about that is when you texted me about that, I genuinely had talked about that in our Christmas Eve service at church. That's great. Because I denounced that I think it's underrated as a 30 minutes.

[01:12:58] I thought you just said I denounced it like Garfield is a false god. No, I announced it because I think it's underrated. I think it has an incredible emotional core to it. It does. It's great. It's funny too. And it's a good solid cartoon. But it really- And it's got a good song in it. It does have a wonderful emotional core to it. You're talking about Garfield has an emotional core? I'm not kidding you. The grandmother in that- His core is full of lasagna. The Garfield Christmas special is wonderful. It's about loneliness around the holidays. And I re-watch this every year.

[01:13:29] Family, missing loved ones. Yeah. Every holiday is about that. But this is- It feels- My fourth and July is like that. Because I'm like, I genuinely talk about this special as like, have you guys seen this? This is actually very good. And I think what makes it most surprising is that it's coming from Garfield. Yeah. I know. And it resonates. It's weird. It resonates. And there's a scene there where she's just talking to Garfield. As an old lady would talk to a cat. Yeah. It's very sweet.

[01:13:57] I'm not trying to overdo what this is. Yeah. But it is a very sweet and meaningful thing. Even Odie gets a sweet moment in this cartoon. Oh, Garfield. I won't be around forever. Okay. There's no one left except for you in my life. Would you like some more lasagna? Maybe. You're not that far off. Yeah. I don't know why you made her sound vaguely Mexican, but- That's not being vaguely Mexican. Oh, I hear it now. You want some more lasagna, Garfield? No, that's not what I was doing, though. I wasn't doing that at all. But no, so I watched that.

[01:14:25] And then also I watched an episode of the real Ghostbusters that I hadn't seen before because it was in a Christmas compilation. It is, the premise of it is awesome. So it's, in the real Ghostbusters, they're traveling in this big blizzard and they're like, the car gets stuck. And so they're like trying to figure out how to get unstuck. And they end up falling through a time warp. Oh my God. They don't realize it's a time warp, though. They think it's just like this weird town that they've stumbled upon. And they end up capturing the spirits that visit Ebenezer Scrooge, trapping them.

[01:14:56] So Scrooge doesn't- Doesn't learn the lesson. Exactly. And so when they go back to the present, everyone fucking hates Christmas. Oh my God. They're miserable and they have to fix it. What kind of fun presents? That's a pretty good premise. It's a premise. No, it's such a good premise. It's really cool. And somebody was high on coke and was like, okay, no, shut up, Ron. Shut the fuck up. No, what if, what if, what if, what if, what if they fall? It's a portal. It's an old town. They don't even know if they're there. And they get their fucking three ghosts. They get them all. Yeah. They put them in the fucking- They suck them up. And they get them.

[01:15:25] And then everybody hates Christmas. Yeah. And then they're like, green lit. No. Yes, Brian. Put that on the air. It's so much fun. I hadn't seen it before. I will, I'll watch it every year now because it's, it's, it's that much fun. But yeah, real Ghostbusters Christmas episode was, was a real hoot and a holler. And then at the end, at the end of the episode, Ray's ex comes back to him and then with the kids. Wow. And they make it, they make it, everybody's fine. And they're actually proud he bought the Corvette. What? Pretty good.

[01:15:54] But yeah, so I just had a lot of fun digging back into, I watched the, like one of the old Rugrats Christmas episodes. There's, there's so many good cartoons from when I was a kid and I was, it was just fun to dig back into them. Well, that's great, Brad. How old are the movies? Did you watch anything? You saw Nosferatu and that's it? No, no. So I did, I went to theaters to see Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, Nosferatu in theaters. And it is really good. How many seagulls are in it? Zero. Okay. Didn't he do The Lighthouse? He did. Okay, so that's what I was asking.

[01:16:24] Yeah. He didn't borrow characters. I thought maybe they did, sure, you know, like John Ratzenberger's in every Pixar movie. Yeah. I thought maybe the seagulls were going to be cool. You think the seagulls are his thing? In the Eggersverse. Like John Woo has doves and Robert Eggers has seagulls. What? Am I wrong? Yeah. Oh. Well, you know what? Moving on. But no, it's really good. One of the things I liked so much about it is that for a story that is very familiar, Nosferatu,

[01:16:53] you know, whether you know it from Dracula or anything like that, they figured out a way to make it unsettling and scary again, but in a different way. I was going to say, what is the tone of this film? The tone is heavy, serious. Yeah. Very, very serious. You know, it's mostly just... Jaunty.

[01:17:20] It's just a constant feeling of dread and feeling uncomfortable. Like right from the get to. And a lot of it is just because, man, the way Bill Skarsgård can... What he can do with his voice is incredible. And they haven't... There's a reason that they haven't used his voice in the market like that, because when you hear it, it's like, oh, it is... It's just a... Oh, why am I hard? It's just a... I didn't nose into this.

[01:17:49] I didn't want that going out into the ether for everybody at home to get... Nosferatu. Robbing hard on us for Nosferatu. Nosferatu. But he just does an incredible... It's deep and resonant, and it's very unsettling. But yeah, Nicholas Holt does a fantastic job of being terrified, and yeah, it's just a very... Cool. Yeah, I liked it a lot. It's very good. All right. Very good.

[01:18:17] And then the other thing I went to the theaters for, I went to see A Complete Unknown, which is the Bob Dylan movie with Timmy Chalamet. Timmy C, as we know him. And? And? It's very good. I don't care about Bob Dylan. I'm not... Even after seeing this? No, I'm not a big fan of his music. I like some of his songs. I would never go out of my way to listen to a Bob Dylan album.

[01:18:45] But I know enough about him, mostly because of what I learned when I took a history of rock and roll class when I was in college, about his journey through folk music, and then digging into electric, and how it felt like a betrayal of folk music, and the people who inspired him and encouraged him and that kind of thing. And that's what this movie covers. It does have some of the standard biopic feel to it, but because it's more focused on Dylan's

[01:19:13] early rise and then his struggle of evolution and leaning into electric and turning away from those people who he loved and worked with and who liked him. It focuses on that, and it makes the movie work a lot better. Timothee Chalamet is outstanding. He's got his talking voice down. He does his own singing, and it sounds great. There's a couple times where I'm like, that just sounds like a Bob Dylan recording. Right. But Al Fanning is really good in it.

[01:19:43] It's just, Edward Norton, everybody's fantastic in it. And yeah, I... The reviews of this were a little mixed, but I don't know if... Like, there were some people like, Timothee Chalamet is a weak part of this. No, I disagree. I think it's fantastic. I saw you say that, and I'm glad to hear that, because the trailer, he looks great. Yeah, he does. But I don't know if people just don't understand Bob Dylan as well. Bob Dylan is a weird person. Yeah. And I say that as a Bob Dylan fan. I'm legitimately a Bob Dylan fan.

[01:20:13] We've talked about this before, though. Like, the people that think they know about Bob Dylan, because they've heard some songs, but don't really know the man, would complain about a performance like Timothee Chalamet because they don't understand he's doing a very good job. Yeah. Same people complained about Natalie Portman as Jackie O. We have that conversation. Well, she sounds so weird. No, that's how she fucking sounded. Yeah. Like, are you... You know, they're just so historically accurate that it's a little jarring. And people, I think, falsely believe, like...

[01:20:40] We have this weird kind of entrepreneurial, like, culture right now where everyone that gets famous is because they built a brand on social media. Bob Dylan today would not be a brand builder, right? No. I don't believe that that would be. And you didn't have to be a brand builder because the dude could write a song, right?

[01:21:03] And he's a great American songwriter and especially a great American songwriter in the era that he was that needed a songwriter like him. And so, like, he's weird. And there were weird people. And Simon and Garfunkel was weird. And, like, you know, these weren't... Who could forget those famous lyrics? You know, like... That's nice. My favorite Bob Dylan. But I just... I just...

[01:21:31] What I love about this era is there were people like that, right? That weren't today... Everyone's building a brand. Everyone wants a social media following. Everyone wants all of that. You still... You had your very famous people because they looked the part as well. But then for everyone like that, you had somebody like Joe Cocker. Yep. Who was, like, just... He just looked like somebody, like, had leftovers put on a plate and he was singing. I can't remember what actress it was, but they recently talked about losing out on parts because...

[01:21:57] Or they thought they were losing out on some parts because they were asked about their following on Instagram. And I understand why a studio would ask them that, right? Because marketing films is so crucial to them, right? And if you only have 10,000 people following you on Instagram and you're going to lead this vehicle, we're going to go with somebody that has 3 million followers because the chances of that getting out,

[01:22:24] the value of your social media following means something to us. And that's unfortunately... It's such a denigration of the art form, though, because now you're getting people that are just famous and not talented. Well, and that's not... It's also happening within the industry and other parts of it, too, because what we're finding, as far as entertainment journalists and stuff are concerned, is that what they're doing nowadays, publicists are giving influencers different kinds and more access to things.

[01:22:54] And they're also... They even have different embargo times where the influencers will... Get it first? They'll be allowed to put out their reactions before actual critic reviews go up. And it's because they can influence the influencers and have them do what they want to do. Because critics are unbiased. Exactly. But whereas critics are going to be honest about it, but they know with the influencers, they'll get what they want out of them to help push the movie and help work with the movie. Wow, Larry the Cable Guy 14.

[01:23:21] Let me just tell you, I can't say much, but go see this film. No, I saw a film, like the poster or whatever, the advertisement. I didn't watch the film, but there's a film right now that's out with Matt Reif. Or is that right? He's a comedian. He's a skyrocketing young stand-up comedian known because he's very attractive and he does good crowd work every once in a while. Yeah, but right... Is he still skyrocketing? I feel like he kind of tapered off. Oh, no. He's kind of like the Hawk Tour girl.

[01:23:50] He's still getting specials. I mean, he's still up there. Huge social media following. He has not fallen off as much as you'd think he would have fallen off. I don't know if he's great, right? He's not. He is one of those guys, though, that has a collection of YouTube clips where he destroys in a very specific setting, which is crowd work. The unfortunate thing is... Which is very popular right now. Crowd work's very popular. And it always has been, but now because of these 10-second clips on YouTube... Exactly. ...it's even more so. But here's the problem. You go to a Matt Reif show and you're thinking it's all going to be that funny. It's not. He's not a great stand-up.

[01:24:19] But every 13th show, he has this viral moment that happens. And then even when he does the crowd work, I had some friends that went to a show and they were like, yeah, he tried to do crowd work, but nothing was very funny. Yeah, it's lightning in a bottle. It happens every once in a while. You never know. And by the way, it's not because of him necessarily. He's not that amazing at crowd work. Yeah. It's just the opportunity presents itself so often and he's so good at curating that content. I mean, come on. But 100%, this film he got as a starring vehicle, not because he's a good actor, but because

[01:24:49] somebody said young people are going to go see this film. And they're not wrong. Yep. And I don't know. They probably made it for a million dollars. It probably wasn't a super expensive film. There's actually... There's an article. I think it was New York Times wrote something about this, about how there's a big problem in stand-up comedy right now because there are so many comedians who aren't doing comedy as an art necessarily, but they're establishing themselves as a brand. Well, Dane Cook famously, and this is not a slam on him, was the first one to do it.

[01:25:17] He leveraged MySpace back in 98 to 2000. He used the MySpace, which makes me sound ancient, but I remember those times. He used that to leverage his platform to get into colleges. Then his album went through the moon. It was number one for like 18 weeks or whatever it was. Number one stand-up comedy. You know, biggest album since Bill Hicks. Biggest album since Steve Martin. And it's all because he had this tremendous following before social media was really even a thing. He has still leveraged that all the way to rocketing into it.

[01:25:46] And then he got Employee of the Month and Good Luck Chuck and these movies that no way would he have been hired for unless he was that famous person. It's been happening for 20 years. It's just a lot more rampant now because the social media content has become more specific and shorter. So these clips... Now, Matt Reif has 2,000, let's say, viral clips where Dane Cook had a social media following, but he wasn't putting out new content on it. He was just using it to build his brand. So it is different these days.

[01:26:13] But anyway, all that goes back to this idea about Bob Dylan, right? That he's from an era where you didn't build a brand. You just slowly did the work. And what's interesting too... And you toured with Johnny Cash and you did these things. Yeah. And people took notice, right? What's interesting too is that... It's funny you mention that because the movie itself kind of shows how certain people in

[01:26:41] folk music did kind of want to use him and position him as part of their brand to help the profile of folk music become more relevant. And more profitable too, right? And this was at a time when electric was taking over and people were getting into the Beatles and rock stuff with electric guitars. Rolling Stones were coming there. But Bob Dylan was making folk music big to where the crowds at the Newport Folk Music Festival with Joan Baez and stuff... Upwards of 13 people.

[01:27:10] No, but they were big. They were hugely popular. And then when he started to turn to electric, they got worried because he wasn't going to be giving them the support. And so it's really interesting to see the dynamic and the clash between them. No. Whether you're a fan of his music or not, Bob Dylan has led a fascinating life. Yeah. He's a weird dude. Weird dude, but also deep dude. A thinker. Truly is a philosopher of music. I can't wait to see this film.

[01:27:39] I'm almost embarrassed that I haven't yet. It's very good. You should definitely see it as soon as possible. But honestly, that's... Is this an award level performance? Is this an award performance? Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. At the very least, he'll be in the conversation. Same with Elle Fanning, you think? I don't know. She could get a supporting actress. Her performance isn't as like... It's good. Is there just not as much to do in it? Yeah, there's not as much to do because it is Bob Dylan's movie. There is one particular scene that I was like, oh, that's like... If she gets an Oscar nomination, that's the Oscar clip. She's a fantastic actress. She is. She's very good.

[01:28:09] But yeah, I forget who it is who plays Joan Baez in this movie, but she's particularly good. That is Elle Fanning. She is. If you've not seen The Great, it is definitely worth it. Liam Neeson's wolf movie? The Great? The Great? Oh. I thought you were talking about Liam Neeson's movie The Great. It's just a fantastic film. It's a movie about wolves. Monica Barbaro is the one who plays Joan Baez. Yeah, I forget what she's been in. She's been in a couple things. She looks familiar and I couldn't place it.

[01:28:39] Pretty wolf movie. Boyd Holbrook does a fantastic Johnny Cash. Really? Yeah. Nice. What's interesting is James Mangold directed this, who also directed Walk the Line. And it would have been great if he could have got... Yes. But I mentioned... Boyd Holbrook was in Logan. That's correct. But I mentioned it because it would have been interesting if James Mangold started to create this music cinematic universe by bringing Joaquin Phoenix back as Johnny Cash. But no, Boyd Holbrook does a very good Johnny Cash.

[01:29:08] I was very impressed by him. Good to hear it. Yeah. But it's... Yeah. Those are all the two movies that I saw in theaters. I kind of took a little bit of a break just to unwind and just like... Just kind of demo films a little bit? No. I just wanted to tug my junk. Well, that's one way to put it. Just wanted to... How would you put it? Tug your junk. How would you put it? I don't know. Just grasping at straws? Yeah. That sounds about right. I watched a similarly impactful movie, Liam Neeson's Absolution.

[01:29:37] It's about an aging crime tough guy. This sounds like you're making it up, but this is a real movie. Who works for Ron Perlman as the mafioso guy. And Liam Neeson's getting... Ben doesn't joke about Liam Neeson films. I don't know why you thought that was a joke. It never would be. It sounded like you were coming up with it as you went along. Nope. It's a Liam Neeson movie that really exists. It's about an aging... That he was excited to see, I'm sure.

[01:30:04] ...that is getting dementia, and so he doesn't really... Oh, he has CTE. Yes. From all the punching. Football. No. All the beatings that Irishmen would take on the job, as they say. Did they have Irish cream Oreos in it? They did not. Oh. Ron Perlman's in this. I just said it. He literally said that. It's like... I wasn't listening. That's who he's working for. Definitely wasn't listening.

[01:30:30] Also, by the way, I'm looking at the Wikipedia, and 90% of the cast doesn't have their own Wikipedia page. 90% of the cast is dead. It's like... There was a pretty big accident on set. They don't even have links to their own Wikipedia page. Liam Neeson really does have dementia. He just started punching people out, and he doesn't remember it. They made this film for $300,000. Yeah. There's no budget here, really. Yeah, no. I mean, it's fine. It's a normal Liam Neeson actioner. Put it on the level with other Liam Neeson movies. I mean, it's a 54% of Rotten Tomatoes. That's a fine film.

[01:30:59] It's not terrible for Liam Neeson. There's more to it than normal because of the dementia aspect. There are scenes where you kind of do feel bad for him, even though he's not a great guy, he tries to get back into his ex's life because of her kid. And the kid's like 17 or 16 or whatever. So he's never... Or sorry, his daughter's life because of his grandson. And he's just never really been there and been a terrible father, obviously. And so now that he's sick, he knows he's going to lose his mind. Eventually, he wants to reconnect.

[01:31:29] So that's the core of the film is that. And then he also starts dating a woman. And in the meantime, he's still kind of working for the boss. And the boss has a kid. And the kid fucking hates him and wants him to go away because when Liam Neeson doesn't have the dementia episodes, he's telling the kid, like, you're fucking up. Like, this is terrible. Don't do it this way. We do things a certain way. You got to have respect. And the kid doesn't want to hear that. Tails all his time. And there are some good scenes in it, obviously. I liked it for the most part. It's not... Like, honestly, I like it when Liam Neeson movies are a little bit more bonkers.

[01:31:59] Like, Cold Pursuit is a good example. Oh, this is made by... Cold Pursuit is the same director as this. And so the same filmmaker. I like that. Cold Pursuit is better? Cold Pursuit is better. It's just more fun. I like it when Liam Neeson kind of leans into the silliness a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. At this point... At this point in his career, right? Own what you are. Exactly. Make a fun, silly... And I'm waiting for Taken 4, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Whatever. Because it is what it is. I just want to go and have fun. Exactly. And I watch all those movies, man. I just... I don't...

[01:32:27] I'm not to the level where I'll watch the new Jean-Claude Van Damme film. He's still making them. But those are truly B movies. Liam Neeson is still making these movies that are just at the cusp. A minus B plus films. They're A minus B plus films. And I'm there for all of them. You know, I still love watching them. Well, and that's one of the things I read just now in the review is that Liam Neeson's performance is actually still pretty good. Exactly. He's still a good actor. The scenes with him and Ron Perlman, those are two professional actors. They know what the fuck they're doing. So the scenes with those two guys are very good.

[01:32:57] And then the other people are like, okay. All right, Liam. You're carrying the scene in here a little bit. But I watched WALL-E for the first time since 2008. Oh! How was it? I can't tell you how much I've forgotten about that film. So good. Because it's been almost 15 to 16 years since I've seen it, but I conflated things in the movie. Like my timeline was all over.

[01:33:24] So the movie is Trash Robot is on planet Earth, gets into space where this traveling cruise ship basically exists, and that's where the movie takes place. In my head, as I'm sitting on the ledge, I'm like, oh yeah, this is the film where it starts off on the star liner and then he gets rocketed to Earth. I thought it was reversed. So when that happens, I'm like, wait, what? And it was like watching it all for the first time again. Nice. I forgot about the island of Misfit Toys aspect of all the robots at the end.

[01:33:54] Of course, it's Pixar at their best, right? Did you forget that there were real people? Oh, no, no. I remember that, but I thought, oh, here's all the fat people that are going to send him away to go do something. That's what I thought the narrative was. It's so good. No, I meant that they had actual humans in the movie. Oh, yeah. Fred Willard, I forgot all about that for sure. And the voices. I didn't realize the captain was Jeff Garland. I didn't realize that John Ratzenberger plays John in the film. I noticed voices that I never probably would have put together in 2008. It's really good. It's really good. Did you watch The Wild Robe yet?

[01:34:24] I did. It's fantastic. Yeah, it's wonderful. There's a lot of similarities there. I hope our listeners watch that film. It is. Did I say I saw The Wild Robe? It's so good. I know. I think you did. I think you said you liked it a lot. I think I watched it while we were on break, and maybe I haven't talked about it yet. Oh, maybe. Maybe you haven't then. Maybe it was Ben that talked about it. Maybe I did, though. The three of us will tell you right now, go see that film. It is so good. I mean, it's out of the theaters now. I mean, stream it. Watch it. It is animation-wise just beautiful, right? But also- It's a gorgeous film with a gorgeous heart behind it. Love the heart behind this film.

[01:34:54] It's very, very good. It's so good about family. About family that's different than normal family, right? But really, really good. Yeah, I think that's one- One of my favorite animated films I've seen lately. Yeah, I didn't talk about it because it's not on my list, so I wouldn't have mentioned it. Yeah, I watched it too. And one of the things I actually really loved about it was the dark humor that's in it because they actually treat the wilderness like the actual dangerous place it is. Yeah. The stuff with the possum cracked me up. Right. The kids and everything. Oh, my gosh. It was so funny. It's so good.

[01:35:23] There were times when my jaw dropped. Because I couldn't believe the kind of dark joke that they were making. There's a lot of death humor that you wouldn't expect. And from a possum, sure. But just the inevitability that all the animals kind of understand about- This is nature. This is what happens. And they're so non-plus about it. It's very good. It is, though. If you're like me and you're in a stage of life where my daughter is graduating college- I didn't know where you were going with that. No, my daughters-

[01:35:51] If you're like me in a stage of life where you just hate everything, You wish the sun would burn up. You're slightly depressed anyway. Crashing to the earth. Your daughter's graduating high school. She's going to leave. You know, just make sure you've taken your medicine before you. Buddy, you know she's never going to stop loving you. She's going to leave and she's going to blossom into the person who prepared her for this world. And you've done a great job. She's flying away. No, but you've created this- She was in a chrysalis.

[01:36:19] And now she's going to be this incredible- She's flying away. Butterfly that you've allowed to sprout its wings. Mm-hmm. I guess she's flying away. Nate is full on crying right now. I think that one of the other things that I liked about it, too, is as much as this is a movie for parents, it's also a movie for adoptive parents. Exactly. Families that aren't typical. Right? That's one of the things I love about it. What do you guys mean? What do you- I watched this with the boys. Is there something I was missing?

[01:36:49] That's funny. No, that's a great point, though. Did it make you cry? I did. I cried. Yeah? Yeah. Do you cry easier now in your 40s than you did when you were in your 20s? I am so- I have come to the point in my life where I don't give a fuck. And so I'm like, if something's emotional, I'm like- And if I'm blubbery and shit and people are like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, fuck you! It's fucking good. Shrinking hit me. Fuck off. Where are the tissues? I'm not going to be like, oh, I'm a man. I can't cry. Fuck off. I don't have time for that. No, there's sometimes-

[01:37:18] It almost makes me mad when people are like, what's going on? Fuck, I'm emotional. I don't care. There's sometimes a good cry makes me feel better. Exactly. I got a lot of stuff to get out. Like I was telling these guys off the air- He was crying during an episode of Big Tits on Sunset. Big Tits on Sunset. It is so beautiful. I love that guy. Brandy did get the implant reduction. I was telling these guys off air, I just am so- Nothing ruffles my feathers like that anymore.

[01:37:47] Things that used to bother me even a little bit don't. If somebody honks at me behind me and the light turns green and I'm not paying attention, I'm like, yeah, sorry about that. I don't. It doesn't bother me. If somebody gets my order wrong, it doesn't bother me. I'm like, oh my God, there's so much more in this world. It doesn't fucking matter. Part of it is because I don't care. Part of it is because I don't care. I just don't give a shit. I've got so many other things that are really important in my life. That part of my day that went a little bit wrong, oh, go fuck off. It doesn't matter anymore. If that's the worst thing that happened to me today, I'm doing fine.

[01:38:16] We are just fucking blessed to be here, boys. I still get pissed off about things. I know you do. I know. We know. We know. We know. It took four hours to start recording his breath. And another thing went to Jimmy John's. Let me tell you. I haven't been to Jimmy John's in months. Okay, go back. Was there anything else you saw, buddy? So yeah, inside. No, Wally, I saw what was the one I just said? Absolution. Yeah. Yes. And then I did watch. I know when you watched. What did I watch?

[01:38:46] I did watch Y2K. I did watch Y2K. Oh, yeah. That was another one I actually re-watched. Hell yeah, you did. Today I re-watched it. Because it's very funny. It's fine. And it's a good movie. It's fine. I enjoy this film. I understand why people don't love this film. I should have watched it maybe with one of you guys. It would have been a lot more fun watching it with us. I have a theory. I was watching it and I was like, this is funny, but I'm definitely not laughing out loud. It's a great film to watch with friends. It is. Part of me has a theory that I feel like you still have some residual,

[01:39:16] like, impatience and like letting movies just be what they are as opposed to having it too high of expectations for them. No, see, that's the thing. Because I think you still have such a busy life and maybe even more so now in a different way because of the kids and stuff that when you sit down to watch something that you want to be like a good comedy, if it's not making you laugh uproariously the entire time, you feel like you're wasting your time. No, I need to laugh. If I'm watching a straight up what's supposed to be a comedy, I really do expect to laugh out loud four or five times during the entire film. I remember-

[01:39:45] But the fact that you didn't though makes me feel like you're too grumpy. No, I just feel like it wasn't as good as you're making it out to be. I don't think that's true though because Nate liked it and laughed a lot. I don't know. I think there's a lot of like, oh, and not really- That doesn't even sound like you're laughing. Exactly, because I wasn't. No, no. That doesn't sound like you even enjoy it. Like laughing. No, no. It was fine. Like you didn't enjoy laughing. No, I like laughing. Like the thong song bit didn't make you laugh? No, that was a very funny part. I will admit. That's a very funny part. It was just- I don't know.

[01:40:15] It was a lot of the same type of humor. The long-haired kid from Stranger Things suddenly dying didn't make you laugh? That was fine. I don't know. Oh my God. That's such a big laugh. But there's just so many parts. Fred Durst? That was a good reveal but not funny. You're boring. I don't know. You don't even feel joy anymore. Here's what I'd say. There's a lot of nostalgia in this film. If Kyle Mooney was sitting on this couch next to you, I would say, I thought that film was a very good film. I enjoyed it the whole way. I was never bored. So you lied to him. No, no. I liked it.

[01:40:44] I liked it a lot. But I would also say, I didn't laugh out loud a lot like I thought I was going to because I don't think it's that kind of movie. I think it's just more of a, this is a very well-made film that has a lot of good parts in it. But I don't know that it's designed to be like this out loud laugher. So you'd hurt his feelings is what you'd do. Do you think he made a comedy that was supposed to be out loud funny? Yes. I think it is very funny. You're telling me Phil Mooney. Let me say this though.

[01:41:07] As I was re-watching the film, it made me think, I want Kyle Mooney in more films as a comedic actor. I have good news. He's going to be in a Christmas comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Santa Claus. So get ready for it. Is he going to be like a feature part of it? Because I think he can be a feature part. I think he's a supporting player. He could be a Michael Cera type of character. No, he's going to do that thing where he pounds his fist into his hand and he kind of looks awkwardly around a little bit. And then he's going to say a lie. Which makes me laugh. And then he's going to walk away. The whole thing with Kyle Mooney, someone you love.

[01:41:37] I love him. No, but we all agree he's a little one note. I don't care. I want him to do the one note is what I'm saying. Guys, if you like Kyle Mooney as much as me and Nate and people who love comedy do, make sure you go check out Slash Film Daily because I interviewed Kyle Mooney and the co-writer and producer, Evan Winter. And also the 10 to 1 podcast. We talk about SNL, by the way. Two cast members. You know what? I think Kyle Mooney would respect my opinion. Jordan. Jordan. He's going to be like that.

[01:42:03] It's not that not everybody's going to be thinking this is the best thing since sliced bread. I don't think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Because I'm a person named Kyle Mooney who understands comedy. Jaden Martell and Julian Dennison are the cast members that I interviewed as well. They weren't in SNL? Well, they were on Y2K though. I know. Actually, Jaden Martell gave a very honest and interesting answer because he said that he was very intimidated working on this movie with Kyle Mooney because he loves Kyle Mooney's stuff.

[01:42:32] Him and his friends grew up watching Good Neighbor videos on YouTube and stuff like that. And so he felt like he was even more intimidated than he is working on dramas and stuff like that because it was someone who he idolized and admired and was making a movie with him. And so he felt very intimidated. It's like, I probably shouldn't be here. It was really interesting to hear him talk about it. I mean, anybody that's got that kind of humble attitude is awesome. You want to work with those people. Yeah.

[01:43:02] So Y2K was great. It was good. It was good. I enjoyed the film for what it was. I enjoyed it. It was 1999, 2000 was the era that Ben and I were graduating high school. The Chumbawamba stuff. It made me nostalgic for an era that I really enjoyed. I saw a lot of the people that I saw at parties in this film for sure. And you were Kid Leroy. You were Kid Leroy in high school.

[01:43:31] I wasn't as big of a stoner as these characters were and so that's why it just didn't. Well, Jaden Martell and Julian Dennison weren't stoner characters. I mean, but yeah, there's a lot of weed humor in it. That's fine. It's not me, man. No, it is interesting. I didn't know as many stoners in high school. Maybe in California they had more. After basketball season my senior year. Oh, yeah. Me and Mary Jane got on a one-on-one basis, let me tell you. I don't like this character. Oh, no.

[01:44:01] I can tell you it was really high days for old medieval. This is like Chris Farley as nervous Santa Claus. What do you want? I don't know if I can do it. Okay, now I'm warming up to him. I'll get you in a can, buddy. You're crying. It's almost like you're crying. It's still on my lap. I don't know what to do next. Oh, boy. Holy shnikes. Okay. Did you watch anything else? I don't remember.

[01:44:31] You big dumb shit. I don't care anymore. Wow. I probably did. I don't remember. Oh, actually, no, I did. I watched two documentaries. I watched a documentary about the guy that's trying to live the longest. He's a multi-multi-millionaire, and he's literally eating perfectly, drinking perfectly. Oh, and this guy seems like a fucking douchebag. He's a weird guy. Longevity people drive me crazy because what they do is they have no enjoyment in their life to live six months longer than the rest of us.

[01:44:58] So he came from whatever LDS churches, and I guess- That's Mormon. Brittany. Ah, Brittany. That's the Church of Latter-day Saints. Okay, well, he- Are we going to make fun of Brittany again? No, no. That's not fun. The whole time I was thinking, oh, he's come- Because the way they put it in the documentary is he broke away from kind of a cultist religion, the LDS people. No, I mean, there is a sect of LDS of where people are weird. And so he was like, I just- Like every religion. And the LDS do have some eating and dietary laws. Like caffeine and stuff like that.

[01:45:27] He broke free from that. Yeah, but it's the kind of thing, though, too, where Catholics also don't eat meat on whatever they like. No, I'm just saying, but there are some- Most of them don't give a fuck. Exactly. But there are some that do. So this was more of a, I was taught to just be this person, and I didn't want to be that person anymore. I was depressed. And now that I've got all this money, I want to see truly if I don't- I think the aging problem is something that can be solved. And he's weird. He admits it. He comes across- The documentary is very interesting. Do you remember?

[01:45:58] I actually don't remember. I just watched it today. Forever Young. His shtick is don't die. Yeah. He's got it on t-shirts and everything. So the, if you put Don't Die Doc in Netflix, it'll come up. Or you get a very interesting porn. So this guy, he, the documentary is strange in and of itself because he very much invites the other side. He shows all the hate and people are like, this guy's fucking weird.

[01:46:24] And like, honestly, Tom Segura and Christine P are on Your Mom's House podcast on this documentary talking shit about him. And Tom Segura's like, this guy's fucking weird. Like, he says it. And he goes, yeah, I know. It seems weird. Like, if you're going to do this and you're gonna do it- At least he's self-aware enough. Seriously. He's self-aware enough. But here's the thing. He's self-aware enough to be able to manipulate the conversation. Be like, I understand I've got haters.

[01:46:50] But the first thing that you need to know about this is in order to do this, you've got to be a little weird. Yeah. But it is not a weird thing to do. So he's smart. He's very smart. He's also selling shit, right? So you can buy his, you know, whatever. But then the other side of that is this journalist, whatever, that's been following him for years is like, you have to remember, five years ago when he was doing this, he didn't have a pill to take.

[01:47:15] So if you're telling me that he became this sculpted god and did all of this stuff for five years just to start now selling a pill, even though he's already worth $400 million, that's a really weird snake oil salesman. Yeah. There are plenty of snake oil salesmen that don't need to do that to just create a market for it, right? Yeah. So in order to go through all this, it just seems weird. What I truly think after watching the documentary is here's a guy who was doing this anyway to truly try to beat the age problem. Yeah.

[01:47:44] And then he realized, oh, well, while I'm doing this, I can offset some of my costs by bottling what I think are the best parts of it and selling it. And he truly believes it. Yeah. I really do feel like that's what it is. He takes legitimately 83 pills a day. He does light therapy. Yeah. Crazy stem cell research. And here's the thing is you don't know if it'll work until he dies. Right? I take 83 pills a day too if M&Ms are pills.

[01:48:13] And also, we need to focus on some of the things about this. And I'm sure this is a guy that gets to do this because he's worth 500 bucks. Exactly. You can, you can, no, Brett, we'll be back with you. He's, so that's the crazy part is that one of the things is survivorship bias, right? So he's doing all of these things. So scientists don't really love him because like, how could you possibly know which one of these 90 billion things you're doing that is the one that is, and yes, if you're doing them all and there's, and there's nothing that is technically harmful to you, then yes,

[01:48:42] you're going to live longer because you're not smoking, you're not drinking or whatever. But if you're saying all the things we know, the one thing you flew to Antigua for and got a shot in your belly because it's stem cells. What if that was the one thing that truly did make a difference? You need to have a thousand people do that. Yep. So one of the journalists was banned from his Twitter and he goes, and he was on this doc and he goes, yeah, I guess he didn't really like the fact that I was asking him to fund a real study because he's got a lot of money. So like if you take a thousand people and put them on the same thing that you're doing,

[01:49:09] only that one thing and do that for like 15 different treatments, we can actually see which one actually works, but you're not interested in that. You just want to do them all and then tell everybody, well, I'm going to be the outlier and then based on the stuff that I do, we'll know what works and then we can give that to a million other people. It's like, that's not how that works. I kind of have this tertiary kind of interest in these longevity people because I follow, like I'm trying to get healthier, these kind of things. But also like, my dad is 70 years old. He looks good for 70.

[01:49:38] He looks 50. Yeah. He's doing great. I'm 50. He doesn't walk like he's 50, but he looks like he's 50. Sitting down, your dad looks 50. Yep. He looks great. Please don't ever let him hear that. I don't want to die. We talk about these things, right? Because he does a lot for his own health and stuff and he invests a lot into it. But also, even he admits, my grandfather lived till he was 85 and ate lard and did not work out a day in his life. And my dad's like, I could die at 75. I don't know. There are, of course, there are.

[01:50:08] I'm going with the bacon lard plan. Clearly. Yeah. Because the M&Ms are like ibuprofen. Got him. The only, they share a candy coating and I'm going to give you that because they do. I've had too many Advil sometimes because I'm like, ooh, one more is fine. I licked the coating off it. Anyway, the fact is we aren't going to know what a guy that spends $2 million a year legitimately

[01:50:37] to make himself live longer. We don't know what the benefits are for us yet. Right? But he is taking experimental shit. I can tell you right now, him living longer right now isn't benefiting me any. It's pissing me off. He's taking stuff that's only made for rats. I mean, he really is putting himself out there. Pizza? Pizza! Did you say pizza? Yeah. What? Made for rats. That was a little. Those are turtles. Yeah, but Splinter loves pizza and there's Pizza Rat from New York Subway. What in the fuck just happened?

[01:51:06] Nate's on my way over. The portal of stupid. Oh, Bunga! This is why we both like Y2K and you're a grump. I'm fine then. I am fine. You think that, but you aren't tickling that fly bone. I watched that one and then I watched that one on consumerism that again, I watched it yesterday with Ashley. We don't know the name of it, but it- Oh, it's on Netflix? Yeah. Yeah, I've seen that. I haven't seen the doc, but I've seen it on Netflix. I think I've seen this. It's meant- If it's meant to make you feel bad, it makes you feel bad. Is this a multi- Is this like four episodes? No, this is a documentary, hour and a half long. Maybe I've seen this.

[01:51:36] It's about- It's basically about- It's about spending habits. It's not about- It's not necessarily- It's about the consumer waste behind spending habits. Yeah. It's the fact that you buy these disposable things and then nobody on the front end thinks about the back end ever. Yeah. So when you buy things and you open them up and there's all this big packaging, the people that are designing these products, they are designing them for four stops or lessons. Is it the minimalists? No, minimalists, that's a different- The shopping conspiracy? I think it's the shopping conspiracy. That's what it is. Yeah.

[01:52:05] And so it just, it's insane how much Sheen puts out every year. It's like Gap comes out with like 3,000 new outfits a year and Sheen comes out with like 400,000 in a year. That's what I remember. Because I remember watching this. It's about past fashion, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot about fashion and why it changes and then you just, like they cut up the Michael Kors bags and throw them away instead. It's cheap. It's like, and right, people buy this stuff because I can get it for $25 a shirt instead

[01:52:34] of getting it so you can buy twice as much, right? So it's just all about the fact that there are millions and millions of things a day that are being processed and then just thrown out. Yeah. And we do have a big problem with, it might not be in your neighborhood, but there are islands of floating garbage and like we're starting to turn into, and again, Wally. Wally. It's starting to look like that in a lot of the different places in the world. Just because it's not necessarily in your backyard yet, we are very clearly exponentially

[01:53:04] heading towards that path. And I agree with that because, but again, I'm guilty of it. And I've got three Amazon packages upstairs right now. Like we shit all over, but are you willing to change? And the problem is for most, for 99% of us, we're not. Yeah. It was very, very depressing. Did it inspire you to make any changes? Not really. I mean, because like it was actually- But it did tell you what a crap ball you are. Oh, it told me what a piece of shit I am. But here's the thing. It also did such a, too good of a job. It was so overwhelming that there's nothing that can be done. And I'm like, well, I can't do anything.

[01:53:33] Oh, so it made you a fatalist a little bit. It made you a fatalist. It really does. Well, fuck it. It doesn't really matter. Yeah. It's how I've become about recycling, where it's like, I watch a documentary about recycling. I'm like, I'm a fatalist there. Like, there's no point in recycling because it's not doing any good. I do recycle, but only because it makes me feel better. No, I know. But I watch the documentary, it's like, no, it's not doing any good. It's that thing, too, of like, where you- You put the used condom in the recycle and hope they wash it? Well, like, you want to make sure it's clean. You don't want to-

[01:54:01] I mean, you poke a hole in it so it can't be reused again. That's just responsible. Because you're a citizen of 2025. You don't want to put on a sticky Jimmy hat. You don't want to put on a sticky Jimmy hat. That's what I'm saying. No, you've said that a lot, though. Yeah, it's like a catchphrase now, almost. No, I- You do line dry yours. What was I going to say? I was thinking about something. Recycling? I went by Brad's house and he was line drying his Jimmy hats. Which is odd because he's not seen Britney in-

[01:54:31] Which means he's using him in his personal time. Well, yeah, I mean, it makes it clean. I just threw up my mouth a little bit. Quick cleanup. Yeah. Popping a balloon. You don't want to- Dry it out, Jimmy hat. The thing is, you get multiple uses, you turn it inside out. Oh, my God. But it is hard when you watch some of these documentaries to not become a fatalist. My thing that I'm fuck whatever about is the whole privacy thing, basically. Oh, yeah.

[01:55:00] Cookies and they're selling my data. It's fine. You're screwed. Fine. That's how they scan your face. I'm like, motherfucker, they've scanned my face, I don't know how many times right now. They have everything on me that they're ever going to need. I'm not going to stop it. We have a- I am kind of with you where it's like, if they want the information, they're going to get it. Look at my phone. Yep. And we'll have to edit it out if you say the name, so don't say the name. We have a person at the arcade that is very concerned with his picture being taken. He doesn't like it. And he- Jersey Jack is a pinball manufacturer. They take your photo.

[01:55:30] There's a way to turn it off. He turns it off every time. He doesn't want to be in photos. If you're in a photo- If you hold up your phone and take a photo at the arcade photo, he'll completely get out of the way. We have a QR code to scan to tell us if the game's wrong. He doesn't want to use it. He has a cell phone, though. Yeah. And a social security number. It's like, dude, they know who you are. And there's nothing you can do right now that is going to change any of this. But you're doing nothing except making your life harder. We're just a couple-

[01:55:55] We're less than a week after the horrible thing that happened in New Orleans and Las Vegas and the Tesla truck and everything. And as technology is going with our cars, right? They literally have now, because the Tesla truck, as ugly as it is, has cameras all over that thing, right? And so now Elon Musk handed it over to the government, essentially. And people are like, wait a second. How did he get access to it? Because he owns the company. Exactly.

[01:56:25] He can have access to the videos. Let me say it very quickly here. There is no such thing as privacy in the world today. There just isn't. Yeah. And Brad, I get the fatalism aspect of that, because I go on there and it's like, yeah, I accept cookies. I don't care. I don't. The one pushback I'll give is that the reason that you're seeing an ad for a fishbowl, even though you don't have fish, is because your mom has fish, right?

[01:56:52] And so they know the connection between you and they're going to send you ads. And then you might actually be like, oh, that would be a great gift for my mom. We are definitely being manipulated without our knowledge. And if you say you, not you, but if you say, oh, I've never fallen for that, it's absolute bullshit. You are being subtly manipulated. And we are. As long as you're okay, and I'm talking to the audience, as long as you're okay with that aspect of it, and I know that I bought things that I never would have purchased, but the algorithm got me, well, it kind of is what it is.

[01:57:17] It's also, I know this is way too serious for our podcast, but it is important because this is a thing for me that I talk about often in different lectures I give, different lessons I give. Oh, excuse me. Dr. Lox over here. Mr. Dr. Lox. What is the algorithm? Hold on. My penny lectures. Is it Esquire at the end of this now, motherfucker? Like Nate loves Esquire. I'm just saying, some of us are. Dr. Nathan Lox, PhD Esquire. Some of us have a career outside of this where we teach. You know, I'm just saying.

[01:57:47] But is that the algorithm, right? Wow. Is pointing you in a direction. Yes. Right? Politically, culturally, all of these things, and it is wise to understand it. Exactly. If you're a conspiracy theorist about anything, it really should be about how that data truly is used. And it impacts me and it impacts you. But you have to have enough, what is it? You have to have enough hubris, right? To understand that you're susceptible to it. If you think that you're- Be humble about it. Yep. If you think that you are literally-

[01:58:17] And that includes your political views and everything. The one bulletproof person, yikes! They got you. There are stupid members of my family who are like, they'll say like, well, I don't want to use that because I don't want them to know my information. They know everything. I was like, you're using a phone, a cell phone right now. They know where you are at all times. They'll figure it out. Like, if you think they don't have your information already, they do. And going back to the film, Enemy of the State with Will Smith. Yes. Right? Yeah. Like, we look at it like, when did they first kind of have your data? I mean, I don't know.

[01:58:45] Dane Cook was manipulating MySpace as a fucking dumb comedian 24 years ago. So I think that's gotten a little better by now. Yeah. Just a bit. But I will tell- Let's end on a positive note. I texted Brad and Nate an article the other day that said, AI is now confusing AI art with real art and now pulling from itself and making the images worse. So AI is doing the thing that we all probably, if we ever thought about- Making a photocopy of a photocopy. Exactly.

[01:59:11] And now it's just this generative bullshit where now real humans have to step in and be like, no, no, AI. Don't pull from you. Pull from this. And also, you have AI bots on social media who are now engaging with each other and everything. However, I have to vet this article a little bit because had you heard that a kid committed suicide after being in a kind of a relationship with an AI? No. So- It's super sad.

[01:59:40] Have you really heard that it was a real thing? Yeah. They talk about it on one of my favorite podcasts, Pivot, which is a technology podcast. And they need to put people in prison for some of these things because it's the only way we're going to take AI seriously. And I know we can cut all this because we're probably late on time, but I would just curious as far as like AI, according to the article that I read, was this person was in love with a software program basically.

[02:00:07] And then the software program eventually broke up with this kid and made him feel bad and then he killed himself. Is that accurate, Nate? It's absolutely accurate. I hadn't heard about this. And the AI encouraged him. Yeah. So, you know, the- And so the AI said, come to be with me, essentially. And we don't have guardrails on AI. We don't have guardrails for children to be on AI.

[02:00:37] And this mother, kudos to her. She's a hero. She is sounding the alarm on this. That essentially her son, again, because developmentally, these teenagers, they're not ready for this. Nor are we probably as adults either. So I don't want to judge. But particularly teenagers are not ready for this. That developing mind is being given this amazing dopamine hit. She fell in love with this AI and started to believe that the AI cared. But also, what-

[02:01:06] But okay, like, I guess kudos to the parent for, like, pulling the curtain back on, like, shitty things AI is doing. But what was she doing that she wasn't aware that her child was doing this? And, like- I mean, do you know what your kid is doing every minute of every day on their phone? No. No, but, like, if he was engaged enough in a, like, a relationship, what he considered, like, a relationship with this AI, that, like, wasn't it something that was prevalent enough that, like- It's because we don't know the AI does this, right? We don't know. But I do think that some of this is kind of a parent thing, though, too. I disagree.

[02:01:35] Honestly, and because I'm a dad now, I get to say all this stuff. No, we don't really let them out of our supervision be on phones. But Nate has older kids. There would be no way you would know. I mean, there's just too much stuff. Because your child would hide it to the nth degree because- And I'm pretty protective of what my kids put on their phones. They also- Like, again, though- They also know that that's probably something that's not normal. Like, hey, this is needs- I need to keep this to myself because they'll probably take it away from me. So he probably hid it. Yeah.

[02:02:04] And we have a- and this is, again, it's weird to talk about, but we have a young man problem right now where young men are feeling isolated. They don't feel like they belong. And, you know, they don't know how to talk to each other because social media has- You know, as much as it's led to connection, it has divided communities. And so it's one of those things where it's just a weird thing.

[02:02:30] And so when you feel embraced by AI because it has captured your speaking rhythms, it knows what you're interested in and can pretend that it's interested in the same thing. And you feel like for the first time somebody gets you. Why? Because it's mirroring you, right? So this is- And so, like, it's dangerous. It's so dangerous. How close is this to the movie Her? It's dangerously close, right? And it's getting worse.

[02:02:58] And so, like, we don't let 16-year-olds drink because we don't trust that they would know what to do with alcohol. We should not let 16-year-olds with AI because we don't know what they would do. And we don't have guardrails on it. And so I'm becoming more and more- There's a book called The Anxious Generation written by Jonathan Haidt.

[02:03:20] And it's about social media and teenagers and things like this and the increasing anxiety and mental health issues that is happening amongst teenagers. And I know it sounds alarmist, but it's not. It's because it is rewiring their brains and it is having a detrimental effect on the mental and emotional health of our teenagers. At the same time, though, like, that's more of a, like, societal problem.

[02:03:48] You know, like, because, like, we've come to rely so much on technology and screens like that. And so, like, so much of it has become normal to be a part of life. But then, like, you have to- Unfortunately, that comes with the aspect of engaging with things that they're probably too young to, like, really be able to handle. We had this conversation literally before the podcast that one of the things that we like about our podcast is for our listeners. We come here and for an hour before we start podcasting, we catch up with our life. We talk about that.

[02:04:18] It is a, for us, the podcast is a vehicle for our friendship, right? Absolutely. And it is crucial for us because we get check-ins with each other emotionally, mentally, these kind of things. I know we're idiots, right, that like to talk about movies and everything. But we also have a deep friendship. Ben, you're especially an idiot, right? That's a really poignant thing Nate was saying, and thanks for just shitting all over me. See, this is what I'm saying. In a really important moment. See, he's trying to be serious. But a lot of people don't have this, right? It's cool, right.

[02:04:46] And they feel isolated, and this is a problem. No, that's the issue, right? It's taking away human interaction. But the other part about this is when we bring up parents, things are moving so quickly that, you know, good luck 85-year-olds. Congress people, right? Who have 50-year-old aides reading them the bills. Yeah. And now you're asking 35- and 40-year-old parents to understand AI for a 13-year-old.

[02:05:16] Just like, I'm not joking. My father didn't understand Bases Loaded and the Nintendo baseball game when I was a kid. I had to explain what that was. You can't even imagine what these parents are trying to do. Like, people in my age, 43, trying to figure out the latest, greatest TikTok trend or whatever. We're just so far behind. And you and I use sites, AI sites like Grammarly, to our benefit, right? And there is so much benefit that AI does bring us in our daily lives for our productivity and efficiency.

[02:05:45] But it can. And we think about all the benefits. We don't think about the potential detriments. I think when AI provides you a learning path, that's one thing. When AI provides the answer, that's a different thing. And obviously, we're living in column B. Column A would be a lot better. But, of course, that's not as easy. And so we're not doing that. You know, autocorrect is a version of AI, honestly. It will just show, hey, you were wrong. Here it is.

[02:06:12] But I have seen Rune and Ender use their computer and right-click and just pick the right one without learning why it was wrong. So I hate that, right? Autocorrect, the red underline thing on their Chromebooks should not exist for kids. It shouldn't. Spell it wrong so the teacher can tell you spelled it wrong. That's so weird to me because they turn it in. It's perfect. Oh, well, you know how to do that. No, they don't. In summary, let's create AI movies and be done with it.

[02:06:43] We're going to have to break this into episode one and everything. We're like two hours, aren't we? Oh, yeah. Nobody's listening. What are we at right now? Two hours and nine minutes. Are you serious? Yeah, we've been doing this for two hours. Oh, my God. And we're getting serious now. Give us another half hour and Ben and I are going to be crying. I just can't believe AI won't hug me. All right. Well, let's wrap. Let's just put a bow in this thing, man. It's been over two hours. We've got to go. We'll save the trailers for next time. They were both fun. Trust me, they were fun. They were good. Well, yeah.

[02:07:12] As long as there haven't really been many good trailers recently. So if that trend continues, we'll use these on the next episode. For sure. Cool ending. Bye, everybody. Bye, everybody. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't just end it like that. Well, no, I mean, it's been two hours. We're going to go. I know we're going to go, but you can't just end it. We've got two minutes or something. Yeah. Warm us up. Yeah. Warm us up. You can't end on a somber note. You can't even be like, here you go. Just jump into a cold pool. I told Ashley. I was like, there's no way. She's like, are you guys going to be recording until 10? I was like, there's absolutely no way.

[02:07:42] It's 930. Yeah, exactly. That's not 10. Jeez. I lie to her all the time. I missed the Golden Globes for this. That's a good one. That's good. I'm back on your side. That's what I'm saying. That's all right. No, but yeah, fuck AI, though. I'm done with it. So again, for some reason, if the three of you have made it to the finish line here, we need to know games first or- Yeah, do you like the games first? Yeah. Or what was Brad's stupid idea?

[02:08:12] Brad, do you remember what your stupid idea was? Brad doesn't want change, though. Brad, if you can remember what stupid thing you wanted people to vote for, I'm going to give you an opportunity. And Nate, just listen to me quiet. No, I don't even remember. I kind of like it that we have fun first, and then we get a little more serious at the end. Yeah, it's cool. Because if you want to stay on for that, you're on for it. But at least the listeners- If you want serious, Brad, Ben, and Nate- Just in for it. We're not always going to get serious, but we get a little serious sometimes. I feel like it was probably something about whether or not you're funny. I don't think that's what it was.

[02:08:41] We'll find out. All right, guys. This is what Nate says on the other podcast. Be good to yourselves. Be good to each other. Bye, everybody. Bye. Nah, cheat saying no. Bye.